Apr 01
Good Show Sir Comments: Sturgeon’s Law: Ninety percent of sci-fi book covers are … Good Show Sir!
To encourage social distancing we recommend that our GSS friends read a copy of this one on the Tube. Guaranteed no one will come within 2 metres.
Researchers have discovered the first malware which can be transmitted from computers to humans. Symptoms include hallucinations and a complete loss of artistic taste. Scientists are calling this the “cornavirus”.
You might remember this from here.
Published 1970
April 1st, 2020 at 8:47 am
Ah, the classic family grouping: father, mother, child, demonic teddy bear, and unicorn.
(Alternately, “I’m sorry, John. I’m leaving you for the unicorn: things haven’t been the same since you replaced your genitals with a flying saucer.”)
April 1st, 2020 at 9:40 am
Ah, that great Beatles song, We All Live in a Penis UFO…
April 1st, 2020 at 10:57 am
The Unicorn’s horn is on the BACK of its head? No wonder the rider is leaning so far back, she doesn’t want to get impaled should the beast raise its head!
April 1st, 2020 at 11:46 am
“Talk to the hand… I’m off.”
April 1st, 2020 at 12:00 pm
Tonight on the Open University, sex ed in Germany.
April 1st, 2020 at 1:55 pm
That’s not a child. That’s a sock puppet.
April 1st, 2020 at 2:28 pm
If we painted stuff like this in water color class, I might have stuck with it.
April 1st, 2020 at 3:53 pm
Ridley Scott and Tom Cruise need to give us Legend 2, and unicorn ears look fun to draw.
April 1st, 2020 at 4:53 pm
I’m enjoying my trips to Mable World https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8CICxj8mcs but unicorns are jerks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1X-FWtWNuA
Colour each day in a rainbow way.
April 1st, 2020 at 7:12 pm
So unicorns fart (or possibly shit) psychedelic clouds and spaceships, I should have known.
April 1st, 2020 at 9:11 pm
What’s with the limp wrist, Lady Godiva?
April 2nd, 2020 at 12:12 am
@Raoul: She’s just heard a hilarious joke, so is making the “Oh, you!” gesture.
April 2nd, 2020 at 12:14 am
The GSS virus won’t affect me, I’m convinced of it. Now if these unicorns will just get out of the way, I’ll be able to see what I’m typing.
April 2nd, 2020 at 2:59 am
OK, who do I have to pay off to make these ransomware rainbows and unicorns disappear?
And will they accept rolls of toilet paper in payment?
April 2nd, 2020 at 3:02 am
Unicorns are like Weeping Angels: even a picture of them is magically infectious.
April 2nd, 2020 at 3:37 am
GSS to GSS! There’s even Comic Sans!
Look at that poor hild. Clutching the teddy bear, hollow-eyed with horror at the starkers man, woman, and unicorn. Going to take decades of therapy for the poor tyke.
@DaveM: well spotted through all the glitter. Very WTF.
@Bruce: GSS.
April 2nd, 2020 at 8:29 am
I have seen Cthulhu in the eyes of a sparkly unicorn. I will never be the same again.
April 2nd, 2020 at 11:42 am
As even adding links to my comments is beyond my abilities, I am now in awe and slightly afraid of Good Show Sir’s computer skills.
April 3rd, 2020 at 8:32 pm
Now that the hallucinatory sparkly 80s-retro infestation is purged, most of these comments will completely baffle future readers.
April 3rd, 2020 at 10:25 pm
@Tat: Isn’t that true of most of our comments, even absent sparkling Unicorns! and rainbows?
At least they’ll be able to read the comments.
Sans adornments, this is still a terrible cover. She’s hyperextended her shoulder and wrist (on a ridiculously long arm) while keeping a close eye on that misplaced horn, and I think @B’mancer is correct that the evil child is some sort of puppet.
I think GSS has proved an extension to Sturgeon’s Law: 90% of Ted’s book covers were also crap. Destroy them with a killdozer, I say.
(Keep the insides — he really was a marvelous writer)
April 3rd, 2020 at 10:28 pm
@Tat – Don’t assume there won’t be more hallucinations. It’s Flashback Friday!