Good Show Sir » HarperCollins 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 Harm’s Way http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2011/05/harms-way/ http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2011/05/harms-way/#comments Thu, 05 May 2011 09:04:50 +0000 admin http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=4050 Pfft look at all those sails. He's making up for something.Click for full image

Ian Comments: This is not a terrible cover – it quite accurately depicts the book’s contents. It’s the UK edition cover. The US cover follows..

I've been working out all day, take a whiff of this!Click for full image

Ian comments: This is what the US publisher used for the book. It is, incidentally, a steampunk space opera, with Victorians in space.
Both were published in 1993

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Rich Comments: The nipple!
Published 1993

Many thanks to Rich!

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Rex’s Art Direction: Okay, gaudy covers are out, minimalism is in! So let’s see, what shall we put on this cover… a fish! Yes, a fish, that’s right, I’m sure they live in forests, right?

Thanks to Albertosaurus Rex!

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Naked people? You’re right, we can’t have two yellow glowing buck-naked people standing on some far away planet, with the man pointing upwards towards some awful green moon that takes up 80% of the cover. Oh I know, cover their jibblets with some storks. And we’re sorted!

Happy St. Patricks day! – Good Show Sir

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Eighties cartoons are just fantastic, aren’t they. Wait a second… What if we go for that eighties look? Muscle bond guy wearing strange straps which have no benefit and gold bracelets. Holding aloft his magic glowing sceptre. No one is going to forget this cover anytime soon!

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Imagine this. The cover of the book, on the cover of the book.. wait for it .. being struck by lightning and going on fire! Don’t worry about drawing another cover on the cover that’s on the cover. With this we will blow peoples minds.

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You know the two things that make everything look fantastic? Glow and blur. The best photoshop tools money can buy. So we’ll have a glowing blurry tattooed man with a wolves head! And some girl with some glowly blurry transparency around her. Make sure the title is huge and don’t forget to blur what you can.

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I’m really not sure about what I want… So how about some weird horse-camel type creatures, something that would make The Great Lucas proud! Don’t forget to add a terrible landscape, an awful off planet sunset, and some people pointing a huge antenna to the sky.

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