Good Show Sir » Haircut 100 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 Время Оно (It Is Time) http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2012/02/%d0%b2%d1%80%d0%b5%d0%bc%d1%8f-%d0%be%d0%bd%d0%be-it-is-time/ http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2012/02/%d0%b2%d1%80%d0%b5%d0%bc%d1%8f-%d0%be%d0%bd%d0%be-it-is-time/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:00:41 +0000 admin http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=4819 I don't think more alcohol is going to help us read this book dragon.Click for full image

Frank Comments: Spotted in the Russian-language section at our Friends of the Library sale. The only English-language word was “fantasy” on the spine. I’m illiterate in Russian.
Published 1997 (maybe)

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Scott B’s Art Direction: Take a woman with highly improbable hair, with a snake wrapped around her shoulders. Sexy, eh? But we need to make it all technological-like, so the snake’s actually made of fiber-optic wires or something.  And throw a computer keyboard behind her, to make sure people get it. Technology! Also put a giant floating head in the background — you know I require that on all my covers!
Published 1991

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We’ve both been talking this over and really there is one thing we need on our cover. A horrific font!  Have it big, bold, blocky and have the ‘fought’ look like someone has tried to adjust the colour balance in photoshop and then forgot about it.  For the rest, just have some women crawling out of the air vent shooting an android. But seriously, who cares about the artwork these days.

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WEELLL!! How about a guy in a space ship pointing at some futuristic map.  Hmmm, yeah, you are right, it’s just not sci-fi enough! How about putting in someone with a straight bowl hair cut, and a huge werewolf creature with botox lips?!

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