Good Show Sir

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Sarah Comments: This cover raises a lot of questions. Are those pointed shoes? What’s up with his hands? Do all “galactic Machiavellis” keep the souls of deceased dinosaurs in their cloaks? Why does he look as though a slight breeze would knock him over?
Published 1973

Leggings and a dinner suit. Good look!
Many thanks to Sarah!

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Don’s Art Direction: This is a humorous novel about an interstellar diplomat.  He’s suave, he’s debonair, and everything in the book’s played for laughs.  So we want a horrific tentacle-headed, four-eyed, jelly-legged alien leaping at him with a spear.  And we can’t afford the tux rental, so just use whatever your model’s wearing when he comes over from his rehearsal of A CHORUS LINE.  But add some muscles!  Retief is a two-fisted guy, no doubt with mighty thews!  We don’t know what “thews” are, actually, but we’ll know ‘em when we see ‘em and by God he better have ‘em!  THEWS!
Published 1983

So it’s comedy. But it’s not a joke onto the genre. That’s ok right?
Awesome! Thanks the Don!