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I hope you showered miss!! That's delicate advanced scientific equipment you know!Click for full UNSHEEPED image

Good Show Sir’s Art Direction: You know what I would love reading in public… a book with a fully naked women on there. Tied down to some sort of Sci Fi chair… yeah… If anything it shows my literary intellect.
Published 1977

Well that’s us for Christmas folks! We’ll be back for an Old Year Sum Up on the 31st!
Happy holidays!

Actually, that cover IS a classical work of art!I would touch it without protective gloves.I've seen worse. Far, far, worse.Interesting, but I would still read it in public.Middlng: Neither awful nor awfully goodWould not like to be seen reading that!Awful... just awful...That belongs in a gold-lame picture frame!Gah... my eyes are burning! Feels so good!Good Show Sir! (Average: 6.66 out of 10)
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30 Responses to “To Live Again”

  1. THX 1138 Says:

    You told me Wheel of Fortune was a family show!

  2. Adam Roberts Says:

    I wondered what obscenity the green blob was covering up, lower left. Imagine my disappointment when I clicked on the unsheeped image.

  3. SI Says:

    Ah… how people used to listen to music was pretty messed up in the 70’s!

  4. fred Says:

    “Proud Mary” – Creedence Clearwater Revival – 1969.

  5. Greg M. Says:

    Say what you will, but that atomic ship’s wheel gives her an amazing tan.

  6. L.B. Says:

    ewe times 2! Happy holidays everybody!

  7. Dead Stuff With Big Teeth Says:

    That reminds me, I need to feed my jellyfish.

  8. Jerk of all Trades Says:

    In retrospect, an MRI appointment was not the best place to drop acid.

  9. Tom Noir Says:

    Some people see cups, some people see faces. I just see sci fi boobs.

  10. Stevie T Says:

    What, no year-end honourable mentions???? I’m crushed…disappointed…sad…

    Obviously I need to get my camera working…..

  11. Herm Says:

    Well, at least the artist had a good go at drawing how breasts really move when the wearer lies down on her back. I don’t know what those extra freckle things are meant to be but the nipple placement is fairly good.

  12. Anna T. Says:

    I wonder if that’s supposed to be a portal to another dimension for our sleeping purple woman? Or maybe it’s a glowing, uncovered (and therefore unsafe) giant fan.

  13. Perry Armstrong Says:

    Re Good Show Sir’s Art Direction at top, I had a longish train commute in the 80s, at some point during which I’m sure I – actually – read this very edition!

    As beautifully parodied in ‘Life on Mars’/’Ashes to Ashes’, it was indeed a different time.

  14. A.R.Yngve Says:

    Cripes! Do you know how hard it is to write a pun on “mandala”?

  15. Tat Wood Says:

    @AR Yngve: depends on where the stress falls. If it’s “MANdala” you can have the flying fishes plah. If you go for “manDALLA” then you have Nelson and Winnie, or oblongata,

  16. anon Says:

    @A.R.Yngve: Make an obscure reference to male Dala horses?

    Nicotine of Scat Finance
    Blisterberg Rover
    VAGINA TOILE AILING TOVEA, ALIVE IN TOGA GIVEN TO ALIA

  17. fred Says:

    If she was blonde there’s a Game of Thrones quip here.

  18. Emster Says:

    My take is that Mr. Silverberg probably had as much control over this cover as Ms. McCaffrey had over the “steering wheel on a Pern dragon” cover we enjoyed last year.

  19. The Blue Are Coming Says:

    That’s not a heathy pink. Don’t fall asleep in a tanning booth.

  20. Bruce A Munro Says:

    Once again out of the robo-womb, baby-pink and confused and about to be picked up by the feet and slapped on the ass by a giant robot.

  21. NomadUK Says:

    ‘Doctor Cuddy! House is putting naked women in the MRI again!’

  22. GSS ex-noob Says:

    @Emster: Bob wrote a lot of porn in his early career to make a quick buck, and has always had an eye for the ladies. So while he might not have had anything to do with the cover, he probably didn’t mind much.

    McCaffrey, however, was genuinely surprised by the dragon with steering wheel the first time she saw it.

  23. Tat Wood Says:

    @The Blue: this is the recommended treatment for a Pepto-Bismol overdose.

  24. Emster Says:

    @GSS x-n: well, makes sense for this and many a steamy SF cover. However, I wonder sometimes if poorly executed attempts at “cleverly steamy” are not in fact ghostwritten by a couple of 13-year-olds at summer camp.

  25. GSS ex-noob Says:

    @Emster: Some of the art we see here looks to be done by the 13-year-olds, that’s for sure.

    What’s been bothering me about this (other than her excessive pinkness) is:

    The wheel of karma, reincarnation, fortune, whatever generally has people bound to the outside of it, not strapped into a misshapen stacking patio chair being fed into/out of the center of it. Is she going to become the axle? Is there another pink starkers broad on the other side to connect to another wheel?

    Maybe the Space Sheep know.

  26. B. Chiclitz Says:

    @Herm (way back when at 11)—I believe the wheel of karma is a super massive object on the order of a black hole so the “freckles” are actually an illusion caused by gravitational lensing as spacetime warps in the powerful gravity field of the wheel of cosmic fortune, creating the well-known “double nipple” effect. Another validation of Einstein’s theory of general relativity!

  27. The Blue Are Coming Says:

    @Tat #23 – good comeback. GSS 🙂

    Happy Easter, everyone !

  28. Tor Mented Says:

    She was bluuuuuue violet.
    And her lawn chair was shaded teal.
    All full of karma was the wheel
    From the stars.

    She was bluuuuuue violet.
    Bluer than violet were her eyes
    Purple as grapes, her tender thighs.
    Love was ours.

  29. Tat Wood Says:

    @The Blue: thanks

    @Tor: David Lynch’s Willy Wonka would have been better than Tim Burton’s.

  30. GSS ex-noob Says:

    @Tor: GSS!

    @Tat: I am intrigued and would like to subscribe to your alternate-timeline Netflix.

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