May 17
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The Tim’s Art Direction:Give me a dude in front of a pyramid with some spikey armor. No, more spikes. More. Still not enough spikes. More spikes! More!
Published 1991

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Tagged with: baldness • Bantam Books • cloaks • Dan Simmons • dude • evil • evil children • Gary Ruddell • inadequate armor • once you see it • spikes • utility belt
May 15
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Frank Comments: Such a high-tension thriller. A goat’s head on a plate, and a toad. Photographic covers really should be used with more care.
Published 1969

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Tagged with: Ace Books • Angus Hall • candles • daemons • evil • evil book • goat • head on a plate • horns • severed head • strange creature • the lonesome toad • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF
May 14
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Bibliomancer’s Art Direction: Its called More Than Human so paint a kid, replace the legs with a reel-to-reel tape deck, and pad the shoulders with a couple of kids heads. Its so obvious!
Published 1975

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Tagged with: Ballantine Books • computers • evil children • Lee Rosenblatt • Theodore Sturgeon • WTF
May 13
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Stephen Comments: I actually really like the door into summer one so not sure why Im sending it in.
Published 1970

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Tagged with: abstraction • balls • Cats! • Pan Books • Robert A. Heinlein • strange creature • W.F. Phillipps • WTF
May 10
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Jaouad’s Art Direction: We’re going a bit more classy for this one. Everyone always only looks at the boobs, right? Well, not this time! This cover is going to be about ears. Elf ears. On a lion.
Published 2012

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Tagged with: Baen Books • BEHIND YOU! • bladed weapons • capes • cleavage • Clyde Caldwell • daggers • damsel • font problems • Kencyrath series • lion • once you see it • P.C. Hodgell • puffy shirt • strange creature
May 09
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Tom Noir Comments: Nice try, teach, but I still don’t buy that math is, “like getting SUPER high!”
Published 1998

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Tagged with: Alan Dean Foster • Ballantine Books • Bruce Jensen • clouds • Del Rey Books • dude • maths! • spectacular space chart • WTF
May 08
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Robert N Comments: Strangely enough a terrible cover may actually be the reason to buy it.
Published 1969

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Tagged with: Avon Books • blunt weapons • Brian W. Aldiss • clock • club • dinosaur • Don Punchatz • dude • insects • magical orbs • mainstream religion • strange creature • time travel • WTF
May 07
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Valerie Comments: Here is a little find in the young adult section. The book sounds decent enough, but I’m not sure with about that cover. Looks like nosy, boring, neighbour in space.
Published 1987

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Tagged with: Clare Cooper • damsel • face tree • helicopters • Hodder & Staughton • moon • space ships • Unknown Artist Institute
May 03
It’s another bank holiday weekend and that can only mean one thing for us here at Good Show Sir! Party time! Or possibly just the cinema and a few beers, which might be a party… to some people.
These covers have been sent in by the very excellent Saxy Stevenson who found them while in Nepal. Hope you enjoy them, as for the published dates… ummm can anyone here read Japanese?
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Tagged with: alien • anthropomorphism • booties • bracers • cat people • damsel • dude • explosion • floating face • font problems • Good Show Sir • helmet • inadequate armor • jumpsuit • leopard people • lizard people • lizards • magic • MEGA POST • mist • monsters • moon • mouse people • once you see it • peaked cap • planets • rodents • space • space ships • strange creature • tentacles • Tokyo Hayakawa Books • Unknown Artist Institute • utility belt • wall face • WTF
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