Good Show Sir » unknown publisher 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 Honourable Mentions 8 http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2011/08/honourable-mentions-8/ http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2011/08/honourable-mentions-8/#comments Mon, 29 Aug 2011 07:57:30 +0000 admin http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=4362 Well today is a bank holiday and I completely forgot about it. Almost got up to go to work! Almost…

So for all your enjoyment here is a few covers that I believe make the Honourable Mentions standard! Have a good holiday for those who remembered!

No! I said lets go get tanked... not lets go make ourselves some tank hats that we can't see out of!Click for full image

DarkZlorf Comments: I’m sure I left my tank parked around here?
Published 1979

I'm going to use my magic globe to see how the battle is going, instead of turning around.Click for full image

Completely stolen from the wonderful Awful Library Books, but because the top left is clearly a copy of Keith Parkinson’s Dragons of War, I thought it too good not to mention! Thanks to John for letting me know about it!

Paper Dolls... more manly than just dolls. Or at least, that's what I told myself.Click for full image

So I found this is in a touristy shop in the wonderful San Diego… paper dolls… what’s with that? Anyway, I had hours of fun recreating all my covers that day!
Published 2010

]]> http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2011/08/honourable-mentions-8/feed/ 10 Ratha’s Creature http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2011/06/rathas-creature/ http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2011/06/rathas-creature/#comments Wed, 22 Jun 2011 08:25:24 +0000 admin http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=4175 Cats finally knew how to fetch... until the great fire...Click for full image

MisterBOB Comments: There’s this great scene in the book,where the tiger has a burning log in his mouth and it looks just like a cigar. So funny.
Published between 1983 – 1988

]]> http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2011/06/rathas-creature/feed/ 18 Hungarian Mega Post http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2011/02/hungarian-mega-post/ http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2011/02/hungarian-mega-post/#comments Fri, 11 Feb 2011 08:56:47 +0000 admin http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=3766 This covers have all been sent in by River and I thought they might all make an excellent mega post. Thanks very much to River who has also provided some information about each!

I'm way too happy to be jumping over a M!Click for full image

Contains 100 short stories by Hungarian authors.
Published 2003

My right arm is huge! My left... not so much.Click for full image

This third hardcover reissue contains two novels written by a Hungarian author under English pseudonym. Writing fantasy and science fiction stories under English pen names was very popular in the 90s. And many readers really thought that these writers are from abroad.
Published 1999

At least it doesn't feckin' sparkle!Click for full UNSHEEPED image

Translating the Hungarian title to English was also a strange tradition in these books just like the English pen names for Hungarian writers. You can read inside that, “A szellemlátó,” means, “The Spiritseer”. Hardcover.
Published 2005

That's cheating! No hydraulics allowed!Click for full image

“Új Galaxis” is a science fiction magazine published twice a year in Hungary. Guess which year’s product is this one. 1988? You slipped twenty years. This issue is only three years old.
Published 2008

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Danielle Comments: For dry, red eyes…
Published Date Unknown

Turns out this book might be apocalyptic Christian literature by E G White.
We appologise, but the cover is still pretty epic!
Thanks to Phil for helping locate info!

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Audes Art Direction: Hey, we need dragons. What, no dragon art available ? Slap that one from the bunch we’ve licensed for cheap with the… what ? Anthropomorphic weapon-wielding lizards, yeah, nevermind that there aren’t any in the boo…  Oh, and some snazzy font, you know, one of those that scream fantasy or sci-fi, whatever, make it bright and bold.
Published 1992

Many thanks to Aude!

]]> http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2010/08/terremer/feed/ 15 A Quantum Murder http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2010/04/a-quantum-murder/ http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2010/04/a-quantum-murder/#comments Mon, 19 Apr 2010 07:58:56 +0000 admin http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=2406 I bet he's watching space porn.Click for full image

NoiselessPenguin Comments: I’ll leave you with Samuel L Jackson grinning vaguely with eggcups stuck to his eyes.

Many thanks to NoiselessPenguin!
We’ve been searching for this one, MU HA HA HA!

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Remember when you used to dress up in black clothes, paint red eyes on your hoodie, stand with a knife and pretend to sacrifice your little brother to an evil spirit just to gain some physical power that will, in the end, only destroy you? No? Well you haven’t lived man! Now, let’s put that on there.

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Nothing – and I mean nothing – attracts readers more than naked children. What.. why are you looking at me like that? Why are you leaving? Guys? Guys?

Thanks to Dave R – The ever living!

]]> http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2010/04/twilight-of-briareus/feed/ 13 Sunrunner’s Fire 2 http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2010/04/sunrunners-fire-2/ http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2010/04/sunrunners-fire-2/#comments Thu, 01 Apr 2010 11:05:14 +0000 admin http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=2314 And now for the real cover:

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You might remember seeing this previously on Good Show Sir: Sunrunner’s Fire

Stutzman comments: So here is the Australia cover for that very same book (found in a used bookstore in the US), which is hideous beyond words.  Same general elements: dragon, wizardly dude in robes, rocks. The execution, however… oh, my eyes.

Thanks very much to Stutzman!

]]> http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2010/04/sunrunners-fire-2/feed/ 6 Not For Glory http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2010/02/not-for-glory/ http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2010/02/not-for-glory/#comments Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:13:58 +0000 admin http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=2041 It may hurt like hell leaning up this way, but that sure is one pretty space ship.Click for full image

You know what’s on the way back in terms of being considered manly? Pink! That’s right. So we’ll have a lot of it. And on top of that epic dose of man we’ll add more layers of manliness. A crewcut, a crossbow and most importantly a stomach wound. That’s one large slice of man-cake for your eyes.

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