Happy New Year 2019! We will remember 2018 for all the cameo appearances of actual professional artists, authors and editors in the comments! Surprisingly, they are not happy! Why would they mistake our lovely site for some sort of Museum of Bad Art? Just because our tagline is “Only the worst Sci-fi/Fantasy book covers”? First thing to do in the near year is to change that to “Only the wurst Sci-fi/Fantasy book covers” so they don’t misunderstand our intent. Not all though. Some get it.
We here at Good Show Sir Headquarters are looking forward to the new year and our gala 10th Anniversary bash scheduled at an undisclosed location sometime in March. Our special friends will have their invitations hand-delivered by a uniformed government agent sometime in the very near future.
As always, GSS After Dark Platinum Club Members can get their party invitations here.
On to the honours. Be aware that this post was prerecorded and if the order of the top three keep shifting, well, fuck it. I’ll just have to go in and delete some ratings.
First, the top rated cover of last year:
Click for larger imageDown in the Black Gang
Sexual innuendo. Always a crowd pleaser.
Our silver medal winner is the Jack Chalker Honourable Mention clusterfuck:
Click for larger imageAs Bruce A Munro aptly put it: Well, if anyone was uncertain that Jack Chalker was dead, this should serve as convincing evidence.
And the bronze medal winning:
Click for larger imageCarnacki the Ghost-Finder
pot-bellied dude and pot-bellied pig
My personal favourite cover of 2018:
Click to remove devil sheepThe Image of the Beast/Blown
Cover Blown. Mind Blown.
And Tag Wizard’s chosen favourite from the year:
Click for larger imageChaos Mode
Es car go go
Peace out
— GSS Admin
(Average: 7.56 out of 10)
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January 7th, 2019 at 10:29 am
Marvellous. Happy New Year to everyone at GSS, I’m sure this year will be just as good as 2018! On this site, I mean, not anywhere else. At all.
January 7th, 2019 at 2:00 pm
Well, it certainly a good year when we have a visit from the author of God Emperor of Didcot. It makes me immensely happy to know that there is a book called God Emperor of Didcot. And yes, I did look it up to make sure it was real.
January 7th, 2019 at 2:57 pm
Francis @2: Not only is it real, I own a copy and have read it. Good Show Sir!
January 7th, 2019 at 3:02 pm
Best wishes for 2019! Had a blast on the GSS Platinum Club New Years Eve Cruise! Great to finally meet GSS Admin and Tag Wizard. Dorian La Padura was there sketching caricatures of everyone for £1. Even Chinese GSS showed up! I was surprised a few of you weren’t there. See you at the 10th anniversary bash!
January 7th, 2019 at 3:15 pm
@Bibliomancer—Happy New Year, pilgrim! I was on the cruise, but incognito, hanging out in my pig suit with the cosplay crowd down in the Zone.
And a GSS welcome to all!
January 7th, 2019 at 3:35 pm
This year was ‘lit’ and totally ‘extra’. Loved ‘rolling’ with my GSS ‘squad’! Well, I’m ‘thirsty’ for some ‘tea’, I’ll catch you groovy cats on the flippity flop!
January 7th, 2019 at 5:28 pm
Kopasetic, Jack!
January 7th, 2019 at 10:08 pm
Happy 2019, all!
Missed the Carnacki cover. It’s definitely…something.
Ghost of Jacob Marley. “Well, it could be worse. At least I just have money boxes, not an angry pig chained to my balls.”
Scrooge: “That’s awfully…specific.”
Marley: “The afterlife? You have NO IDEA.”
January 8th, 2019 at 7:03 am
@B’mancer: I thought it was quite nice for Toby to let us use his yacht for the cruise, and very savvy of him to make us leave a deposit for the damages. We won’t be getting that back and we’ll need another venue for next year.
@Bruce: That’s my personal #1 of badness and nightmares, not only for last year but maybe the whole of GSS.
January 8th, 2019 at 6:15 pm
I wanted to join the rest of you on the New Year’s Eve platinum cruise, but I boarded the wrong ship. I spent New Year’s with a group of bird watchers. Terrible boring, but I did learn a lot about the buffle-headed merganser.
Did you know it is the only extant species in the genus Lophodytes?
http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2885/10896773574_efd65318e8_c.jpg
January 8th, 2019 at 9:04 pm
@ Tor M—I guess that explains what this guy is doing—peering through those perv-noculars to check out that that buffled head! Either that or the spaceship next door has a window looking into the Starfleet Female Space Cadet Locker Room. Either way he’s so enthralled that he doesn’t seem to realize he’s about to get clonked by falling space rocks.
January 9th, 2019 at 3:48 am
I wanted to take the GSS Platinum Club New Year’s Eve cruise, but, um, I had to let my membership lapse because I had to buy catfood instead….
Even if I’d maintained my membership, I probably would have taken a long walk off the wrong pier.
GSSx-n: Someone left the aerosol whipped cream and Silly String on the walls and ceiling of Toby’s stateroom? No wonder you all are losing your damage deposit….
January 9th, 2019 at 5:38 am
These GSS special party events just keep getting more and more popular. Here is Bibliomancer at the New Year’s Cruise having the time of his life with a bunch of his GSS friends:
https://twitter.com/nathanfielder/status/620060895209779200
January 9th, 2019 at 5:56 am
That’s the last GSS cruise I’m going on. I woke up with a new pet monkey and a face tattoo!
@Tor Mented – I love bird-watching too. Just last week I was lurking in the park and I spotted a pair of Great Tits!
January 10th, 2019 at 5:58 am
Hi, Bibliomancer.
January 10th, 2019 at 6:00 am
@Raoul: Of course that leads to the obligatory post about boobies.
It’s only fair. We just had another Dick cover.
January 11th, 2019 at 10:58 pm
@Tag W—That can’t be Bibliomancer. Where’s the third eye?
January 12th, 2019 at 10:32 am
Hi Tor Mented!
Speaking of birds, I’m an owl man.
Love those hooters!