Jan 11
Click for full imageMisterBOB Comments: Happy New Year … said the Rat?
Published 1978
(Rating: 9.44 out of 10)
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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:
Click for original postA Personal Favourite:
Click for original postCSA Chooses dragon crotch!
Click for original postAnd of course, how could we not mention the cover that started a censoring legend:
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Dec 21
Well it has come to that time of year again when we at Good Show Sir need to take a break to steal Christmas presents from children, eat an insane amount of other peoples food and of course, get stinking drunk and rant about book covers!
Not to worry though, we’ll be back first thing in the new year with a round up of the best of 2011′s covers!
Here we have some fantastic Hungarian covers sent in by Gabor and River, about 9 months ago! I appologise for keeping them hidden for so long but here they are, all six of them!
Have a great holiday! And again thanks to everyone who visits the site and all the specials ones who leave comments which brighten our days with witty banter!
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Nov 24
Click for full imageMatt Comments: Found in a bookstore in Portland, Maine. Came so close to buying this.
Published 1992
(Rating: 7.45 out of 10) Loading ...
Nov 16
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
Published 1976
(Rating: 9.62 out of 10) Loading ...
Nov 07
Click for full imageMisterBOB’s Art Direction: One Word – Cat People… ok… so two words!But one cat alien wearing the latest outer space fashions!
Published 1990
(Rating: 8.41 out of 10) Loading ...
Oct 25
SteveAsat Comments: You know what robots really don’t need? Polio. For more than three decades I have wondered whether anything even remotely resembling this scene appears in the novel. But it’s Saberhagan, so the mere thought of flipping through the actual text induces naptime.
Published 1981
(Rating: 6.30 out of 10) Loading ...
Sep 20
Click for full imageArt Direction: Man in a thong sword fighting an octopus while two half naked babes watch. My only regret is that only the French people will see this glorious work of art. Maybe someday… someone… somewhere will show this to the masses so they might all say, Good Show Sir. Good Show!
Published 1985
(Rating: 9.32 out of 10) Loading ...
Sep 12
Click for full imagePhil’s Art Direction: Are you SURE Bradbury is sufficiently recognisable enough to appear on his own book covers? Well, jazz it up a bit; he looks a bit plain.
Published 2009
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Aug 18
Click for full imageMary Comments: Accompanied by the long lost monkey cousin of Scuba Horse?
Published 1982
(Rating: 8.63 out of 10) Loading ...
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