Good Show Sir » dragon http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk Only the worst Sci-fi/Fantasy book covers Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:00:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Honourable Mentions 8 http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2011/08/honourable-mentions-8/ http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2011/08/honourable-mentions-8/#comments Mon, 29 Aug 2011 07:57:30 +0000 admin http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=4362 Well today is a bank holiday and I completely forgot about it. Almost got up to go to work! Almost…

So for all your enjoyment here is a few covers that I believe make the Honourable Mentions standard! Have a good holiday for those who remembered!

No! I said lets go get tanked... not lets go make ourselves some tank hats that we can't see out of!Click for full image

DarkZlorf Comments: I’m sure I left my tank parked around here?
Published 1979

I'm going to use my magic globe to see how the battle is going, instead of turning around.Click for full image

Completely stolen from the wonderful Awful Library Books, but because the top left is clearly a copy of Keith Parkinson’s Dragons of War, I thought it too good not to mention! Thanks to John for letting me know about it!

Paper Dolls... more manly than just dolls. Or at least, that's what I told myself.Click for full image

So I found this is in a touristy shop in the wonderful San Diego… paper dolls… what’s with that? Anyway, I had hours of fun recreating all my covers that day!
Published 2010

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Tom’s Art Direction: Listen you lot, it’s supposed to be a DRAGON. This just looks like some sort of blue lizard. It needs more pointy bits! Don’t come back until you’ve absolutely peppered that thing with spikes. Oh, and draw the world’s most awkward swordsman beside it, you know, for human interest.
Published 1985

]]> http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2011/06/cats-have-no-lord/feed/ 20 Hungarian Mega Post http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2011/02/hungarian-mega-post/ http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2011/02/hungarian-mega-post/#comments Fri, 11 Feb 2011 08:56:47 +0000 admin http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=3766 This covers have all been sent in by River and I thought they might all make an excellent mega post. Thanks very much to River who has also provided some information about each!

I'm way too happy to be jumping over a M!Click for full image

Contains 100 short stories by Hungarian authors.
Published 2003

My right arm is huge! My left... not so much.Click for full image

This third hardcover reissue contains two novels written by a Hungarian author under English pseudonym. Writing fantasy and science fiction stories under English pen names was very popular in the 90s. And many readers really thought that these writers are from abroad.
Published 1999

At least it doesn't feckin' sparkle!Click for full UNSHEEPED image

Translating the Hungarian title to English was also a strange tradition in these books just like the English pen names for Hungarian writers. You can read inside that, “A szellemlátó,” means, “The Spiritseer”. Hardcover.
Published 2005

That's cheating! No hydraulics allowed!Click for full image

“Új Galaxis” is a science fiction magazine published twice a year in Hungary. Guess which year’s product is this one. 1988? You slipped twenty years. This issue is only three years old.
Published 2008

]]> http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2011/02/hungarian-mega-post/feed/ 10 Sunrunner’s Fire 2 http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2010/04/sunrunners-fire-2/ http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2010/04/sunrunners-fire-2/#comments Thu, 01 Apr 2010 11:05:14 +0000 admin http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=2314 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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I’m talking busy, like izzy wizzy lets get busy! Magic! We need a blonde hero swinging his sword, and something magical, oh a like a griffin! Then we’ll have a centaur archer and why not just have a dragon esk creature. With horns, red eyes and tiny wings.

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