Apr 01
And now for the real cover:
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You might remember seeing this previously on Good Show Sir: Sunrunner’s Fire
Stutzman comments: So here is the Australia cover for that very same book (found in a used bookstore in the US), which is hideous beyond words. Same general elements: dragon, wizardly dude in robes, rocks. The execution, however… oh, my eyes.
Thanks very much to Stutzman!
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Tagged with: dragon • Dragon Prince Trilogy • fingerbeams • magic • magical weapon • Melanie Rawn • once you see it • pouch • skeletons • skulls a-poppin' • The Epic Dragon Prince Series • Unknown Artist Institute • unknown publisher • Wizaaaaaaaard!
Aug 31
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Man of the Mountains Comments:Nothing says super powers better than banks of ray guns built into a guy’s skull!
Published 1976
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Tagged with: DAW Books • dude • eye-yi-yi • frickin laser beams • John Brunner • Josh Kirby • magic • space ships • WTF
Apr 18
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JaunPaul Comments: Summon the keeper, my litter box needs cleaning.
Published 1998
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Tagged with: Cats! • DAW Books • glow • lightning • magic • Mark Hess • sky-eyes • Tanya Huff
Feb 17
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Good Show Sir Comments: Look out Jeff, we’ve got a T-Rex… and he doesn’t look impressed with my one-piece body suit.
Published 1975
Many thanks to Erin for sending this in!
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Tagged with: BEHIND YOU! • booties • catsuit • cleavage • damsel • DAW Books • dino-mites • dinosaur • dude • Keith Laumer • Michael Whelan • mountains • muscles • pole weapon • proportional issues • staff • surprised dinosaur • utility belt
Feb 10
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Charles Comments: “I can sell you a Jesus Christ. Cheap. Only 356 credits.”
Published 1972
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Tagged with: baldness • cape • ear rings • Jan Parker • little people • New English Library • old-timer • people in bottles • ridiculous collar • Stuart Gordon • time travel
Aug 19
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Good Show Sir Comments: “No, this is how you play rock, paper, scissors.”
Published 2005
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Tagged with: A. Bertram Chandler • A.C. Farley • busy hands • dude • fight club • John Grimes series • Science Fiction Book Club • tasteful smoke • uniforms
Oct 14
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Alessandra Kelley Comments: I recall Saberhagen’s book, which I read in the 1980s, to be a not-at-all-bad retelling of Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” from the pov of Dracula himself. While the book has a certain dry wit and self-aware sense of humor, it is not, as this 1975 first edition cover might suggest, a wacky goofball comedy precursor to “What We Do In The Shadows.”
Special bonus interior cigarette ad because 1975.
Published 1975
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Tagged with: Dracula • font problems • Fred Saberhagen • Jerry West • roll that tape • vampire • Warner Books
Oct 21
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Chris D Comments: I quite like this cover. As far as following the plot, I suppose that the vacuum tube with the face in is meant to be one of the computers with a human brain. I also like that it was probably completed in just under a half hour.
Published 1967
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Tagged with: Alan Aldridge • detachable head • dude • electricity • Frank Herbert • my head aplode • Penguin Science Fiction • space suits • WTF
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