Good Show Sir » Pan 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 Indoctrinaire http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2011/05/indoctrinaire/ http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2011/05/indoctrinaire/#comments Thu, 26 May 2011 08:00:39 +0000 admin http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=4113 I hate it when little people get stuck in my teeth!Click for full image

Scot’s Art Direction: For this one we’re going dystopian agony. So, nuclear explosion! And a prison wall with people falling from it to their deaths, but get this, the wall is also a screaming face! With an eyeball being stabbed by a needle! That’s the stuff.
Published 1979

]]> http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2011/05/indoctrinaire/feed/ 18 The Puppet Masters http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2010/10/the-puppet-masters/ http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2010/10/the-puppet-masters/#comments Tue, 12 Oct 2010 08:00:13 +0000 admin http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=3282 Being chased by mice riding dogs... what a fetish...Click for full image

Glen Comments: It’s a naked man, holding a ray gun, being chased by dogs controlled by evil alien parasites from Titan, which agrees with the plot of Heinlein’s book. But why the red trilby hat? You would think that boots be more useful than a red hat, if you’re in an unclothed state on a hillside…
Published 1969

Males bums don’t need censored, right?
Many thanks to Glen!

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Neil Comments: “The master of medical horror,” but someone has their anatomy wrong. Maybe it features a story about men with black voids for groins.
Published 1986

Many thanks to Neil!

]]> http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2010/08/mind-bend/feed/ 14 The Far Arena http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2010/07/the-far-arena/ http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2010/07/the-far-arena/#comments Mon, 12 Jul 2010 09:22:18 +0000 admin http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=2921 God, I hate these Lost story lines...Click for full image

Art Direction: We need something that really gets across the feeling of time travel. So, in other words I mean a naked gladiator takes on a Boeing 737. And by naked I just having him at some strange angle so we can’t see his bum crack or giblets. I know, I’m no fun.
Published 1980

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Bookworm Bas Comments: A 1978 PAN edition. I like the play on words with the title submitting ‘sex’ for ‘things’ in reference to H.G.Wells. I also like the artwork. After all who doesn’t like naked women? No relation to any of the stories of course. At least I don’t recall any flying platform jetting away from a mountain range while a nude women, her decency protected only by her exceptionally long brunette hair, is overcome with emotion. Still I bet they sold a few and I reckon the hair extensions were painted in later (which is a shame I think).

Not bad short stories Anne McCaffrey and Hilary Bailey in there as well to represent women. But also John Sladek, A.K.Jorgensson, Thomas Disch and Douglas Hill in addition to those on the front cover.
Epic! Thanks to Bookworm Bas!
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Phils Art Direction: It contains Ellison’s famous story, “A Boy and his Dog.” So let’s have a boy with his dog, but don’t make the boy too boyish and keep the dog cat-like.

Purple cat on lead! Thanks to Phil!

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Giles Comments: I love the Taltos novels, but these covers actually stopped me buying the books several times – they’re so cheesy. True, the artist gets some credit for getting the jhereg (the winged reptile) approximately right, but that doesn’t really offset the general awfulness.

Tache-tastic! Thanks to Giles!

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NoiselessPenguin comments: Nothing says ‘vampire’ better than tomato ketchup squirted onto an ugly grey wall.

Wow… Thanks to NoiselessPenguin!

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Look the font is just too big we can’t fit the whole word in there. But hold on… Hold on a god damn second. What if we spelt it, DRA – GON and put it on two separate lines? Then all we’d have to do is add a dragon firing a laser from its mouth. God, I’m good.

It has come to our attention that this book is not Sci-fi nor fantasy. It is in fact a political thriller.
We appologise, but the cover is still amazing!

- Good Show Sir

]]> http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2010/02/dra-gon/feed/ 23 Valentine… skillz! http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2009/03/valentie-skillz/ http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2009/03/valentie-skillz/#comments Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:34:27 +0000 admin http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=85 Ha! Try stop my magic juggling powers!

Art direction: Actually, I wasn’t really looking for an actual castle. Instead, could you have a couple of people juggling things with little water tentacle creatures and others watching them? And if we had a close up of one of the guys making you think “is he juggling those balls with magic… or just… well,  juggling?” … anyway, if we had that, that’d be juuuust great.

Thanks to CSA!

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