Good Show Sir » Berkley Books http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk Only the worst Sci-fi/Fantasy book covers Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:45:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Lava http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2011/10/lava/ http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2011/10/lava/#comments Tue, 11 Oct 2011 07:12:46 +0000 admin http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=4499 Freeze! I've chosen the best camouflage money can buy. He'll never see us!Click for full image

Jose Comments: Everything about this cover is perfect (in a very wrong way); a spangly shirt, a sentient cactus and a lizard with its ‘hands’ on its hips.
Published 1984

]]> http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2011/10/lava/feed/ 17 The Hero and the Crown http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2011/04/the-hero-and-the-crown/ http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2011/04/the-hero-and-the-crown/#comments Wed, 27 Apr 2011 07:55:23 +0000 admin http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=4031 Ok.. don't let the dragon set us on fire, don't let the dragon set us on fire. don't let the... OH CRAP!Click for full image

NGpm Comments: This is one busy cover. Why does the dragon-saurus have a blue and red aura?  Is the horse fireproof? You know this dragon’s dynamite: “look at the bones, man!” Overall the art isn’t bad, but the typography and that blurb about the Newberry is just so awkward.
Published 1986

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Christal’s Art Direction: Let’s go for Evil Dead 3, only we’ll place it on The Grid from Tron and give the monsters laser guns! Oh and this time no boomstick, it gave him an unfair advantage.
Published 1984

Amazing! Thanks to Christal!

]]> http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2011/01/oracle/feed/ 21 The Stainless Steel Rat’s Revenge http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2010/12/the-stainless-steel-rats-revenge/ http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2010/12/the-stainless-steel-rats-revenge/#comments Tue, 14 Dec 2010 09:58:43 +0000 admin http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=3554 Gwad Slippery Jim! It's art not a slide!Click for full image

Don Comments: It was originally supposed to be “The Stainless Steel Boob-Juggler’s Revenge”, but then we wouldn’t have room on the cover for this lovely art.
Published 1973

Many thanks to Don!

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Eric Comments: The ironic thing about this one is that the cover depicts an actual portion of the story. Accurately. Really. It is a good book, regardless of how it’s clad.
Published 1986

Many thanks to Eric!

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Rose Comments: Let’s see what you have here.  We asked for a road…yes, well done.  And some people in elf suits.  And a really big, really stupid–oh…wow…
Published 1979

Another Heinlein, what fun!
Many thanks to Rose!

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Leo Comments: Nothing says “Sci-Fi” like a robed guy reading to some naked ladies infront of a box full of bleeps and bloops. I havent read this book yet but I’m sure I’m in for a wild ride.

The Perms.. the perms! Thanks Leo!

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Ouranou Comments: Cat people.

It sure is, it sure is! Cheers to Ouranou!

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Listen to me carefully, I said give me a big bosomed women standing in front of some governmental type building casting a beefy fireball. With extra lens flare! Then place every sentence and word in a different type font. Oh wait… that’s what you’ve done.

]]> http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2010/02/skin-deep/feed/ 13 Atlantis Unleashed http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2009/11/alantis-unleashed/ http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2009/11/alantis-unleashed/#comments Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:35:51 +0000 admin http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=1454 So, would you like to get dinner? ....why are you running away? Oh right, forgot I had a sword with me.Click for full image

OH OH OH! Let’s have a half naked man grasping his magic electrified sword around waist height. That sounds suggestive? Of course it is, he’s holding a sword right next to his baby maker. A ha ha ha. Don’t forget to overload the whole cover with text, a lot of text, in all shapes and sizes.

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