Apr 05
Here we are again! It’s been a while for the old honourable mentions but it’s come to that time of year when a can of irn-bru and chocolate is considered an acceptable breakfast!
So if you are having a weekend off I hope you enjoy it and if not… well enjoy these covers that don’t quite make our high standards but we think deserve a special mention.
Have fun!
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Good Show Sir Comments: I love Mark Hamill’s pose on this one. It’s got that, “Why are you drawing me?” Look.
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Good Show Sir’s Art Direction: Well I like these three drawings you’ve done. I know! Lets just put them all together on the cover.
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Matthew’s Art Direction: I want the scariest-looking monster that you can think of on the front!
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Stripey Baz Comments: I’m no purveyor of romance novels or indeed Norwegian literature, but I’m pretty sure that it’s not a good thing to have a mutton-chopped blaggard slap a fair maiden across her face. Given the angle that he’s standing at, his body must have twisted like one of those plastic toy action figures…
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Tagged with: damsel • dude • evil children • frickin laser beams • Frid Ingulstad • gun • Honourable Mentions • monsters • Penguin Science Fiction • Steve Jackson • strange creature • Timothy Zahn • Ting! • Troy Denning • Unknown Artist Institute • unknown publisher • WTF
Jan 27
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Rachel J’s Art Direction: All right, this cover practically designs itself. Think “teleportation”, “futuristic detectives” and “shapeshifting alien saboteurs hiding out on the Moon”. I’ll leave the details up to you…
Published 1966
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Tagged with: Dennis Jackson • Lloyd Biggle Jr • Penguin Science Fiction • WTF
Jan 10
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Joachim Comments: If catwoman actually had ears, a tail, and pink and yellow striped skin and walked around naked…
Published 1976
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Tagged with: anthropomorphism • cat people • cleavage • devil's dumplings • double trouble • Fritz Leiber • Penguin Science Fiction • Philip Castle • planets • space • space sheep • WTF
Jan 04
Happy New Year!
Well another year is here, I am just about over my hang over and of course back in work! So it’s time to start again and see what exciting covers we can find to brighten our days. Last year didn’t see a cover which had the power to beat, I Sing the Body Electric. But maybe this year… maybe…
Thanks to everyone who has sent in covers and comments! You all bring such entertainment to our lives. And of course thank you to all those amazing publishers, without you and your art direction where would Good Show Sir be?
Last year was very exciting now that I think about it. And my quest for terrible Sci-Fi/fantasy book covers also led to the best conversation ever in a second hand book store.
Shop Assistant: Wow.. that cover is so bad!!!
Me: Yeah isn’t it? That’s kinda why I am buying it actually.
Shop Assistant: Really? Awesome. You should start some sort of website to show covers like these.
Me: I have…
Shop Assistant: ……
And nothing more was said. Here is the book I bought.
The top rated cover of the year:
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A Personal Favourite:
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CSA Chooses dragon crotch!
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And of course, how could we not mention the cover that started a censoring legend:
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Tagged with: Arrow Books • cleavage • damsel • dragon • dude • Good Show Sir • lizards • magic • Old Year Sum Up • Penguin Science Fiction • Pocket Books • space • space sheep • space ships • strange creature • Tower books • wolf • WTF
Nov 16
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Alessandra’s Art Direction:It’s short fiction by some of the best, most respected science fiction authors in the field. So I want… A Viking with a bottom for a face! Riding the world’s most exhausted-looking dinosaur horse! With its tongue hanging out! Through a Dali-esque landscape out of the Old West! And give the Viking kind of … Samurai armor!
Published 1976
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Tagged with: Alfred Bester • beast-riding • Bob Fowke • dude • Eric Frank Russell • FaceBoob.com • Frederik Pohl • Fredric Brown • Good Show Sir • horns • Isaac Asimov • J.G. Ballard • J.T. McIntosh • Jack Finney • Kurt Vonnegut • mountains • Penguin Science Fiction • polymastia • strange creature • Theodore Sturgeon • Tom Boardman • waistcoat • wilderness • WTF
Nov 01
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John A H Comments: The future belongs to the designer egg timer people.
Published 1979
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Tagged with: damsel • eye-yi-yi • John Wyndham • Penguin Science Fiction • Peter Lord • space
Oct 03
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Matthew Comments: I remember the TV programme of this being pretty scary…
Published 1976
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Tagged with: evil • evil children • Harry Willock • John Wyndham • Penguin Science Fiction
Sep 30
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Muttley’s Art Direction: A Wizard, right? You know, caped, with magic sparks or something. Big Hair (TM) too.
Published 1986
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Tagged with: dude • fingerbeams • jazz hands • Jonathan Field • lightning • magic • Penguin Science Fiction • Ursula K. Le Guin • Wizaaaaaaaard!
Sep 08
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Chris D Jr. Comments: If subtle clues such as the title of the book and the gun held by the bubble-helmeted, caped character on the front cover weren’t enough, the designer has managed to sneak in an oh-so-subtle name tag as a hint to the vigilant observer that the character on the front is probably ‘Gunner Cade’. Probably…
Published 1966
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Tagged with: capes • Cyril Judd • dude • gun • handguns • Ian Yeomans • Penguin Science Fiction • space suit
Jul 04
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Art Direction: Hey remember that time I had too many of those strawberry “stickers.” It was hilarious, I was all like, ‘OH GWAD help me! I’m fading into another world!’ Lets just draw that, expect, miss out the parts with my genitals. Keep the moustache though…
Published 1980
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Tagged with: Adrian Chesterman • dude • geometric oddities • Good Show Sir • Isidore Haiblum • mighty moustache • Penguin Science Fiction • WTF
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