Jan 01
Happy New Year!
And so the world has spun, strutted and wobbled its way around the sun yet again! We’ve come through ruff storms, predictions of the end of the world and a lot of superhero movies. This leaves us though with one eternal question, will anyone find a cover to top I Sing The Body Electric!?! It certainly doesn’t look like it! But who knows, who knows eh? I am sure the year ahead will be full of wondrous treasures!
Thanks to everyone for sending in all the covers we’ve posted over the year! And thanks to everyone who leaves a comment. Oh they do make me laugh! Ah ha ha ha ha… ha!
The top rated cover of the year:
Click for original postA personal favourite:
Click for original postCSA Chooses Lizard shield attack:
Click for original postAnd finally, just for the double triple Ting!
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(Average: 8.53 out of 10)
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January 1st, 2013 at 9:08 am
RT @GoodShowSir: New Book Cover: Old Year Sum Up 2012 http://t.co/LB07hVfm Happy New Year!!
January 1st, 2013 at 9:25 am
Happy 2013 to all. Here’s hoping that GSS continues to be a haven for wit and sarcasm, and that the recursively multi-armed centaur man of I SING THE BODY ELECTRIC! continues to reign supreme.
January 1st, 2013 at 4:53 pm
Man, I still get a laugh out of how badly “Assassination Anxiety”‘s cover looks like a clip-art archive vomited.
Did anyone ever find out if that “Spectrum” cover had anything at all to do with any of the stories inside?
January 1st, 2013 at 5:18 pm
To the butterfly whale, the floating head of C.S. Lewis, the Seal of the Ovinomancer (also known as the sheep head) and to everyone at GSS and their many, many awesome visitors; a wonderful New Year with many good (or horrible) covers to come!
January 1st, 2013 at 8:12 pm
You mean triple-ting!
January 2nd, 2013 at 8:52 am
@John Oh yes! How could I have missed the third!?! Nicely pointed out, Ting Master!
January 2nd, 2013 at 1:31 pm
I like to think that, some day, we will all get together in a large bookshop and wander the aisles in twos and threes, pulling paperbacks off the shelf and making snarky comments about the cover art and the contents; and then to thank the booksellers for their patience we all buy our own bodyweight in books.
Actually, I just want to make a bookseller’s day better. Arses to the lot of you. 🙂
Happy Mayan Non-Apocalypse, everyone!
January 2nd, 2013 at 4:52 pm
I feel that if the Spectrum cover artist had given a more prominent role to the three-ass lady, he could have knocked “I sing the body electric” off its high throne. Alas, he put her in the background, probably causing the Mohawk birdman to despair.
January 3rd, 2013 at 12:02 am
Oh po o I thought it said Lesrick.
January 5th, 2013 at 10:42 pm
Actually, Its *five* tings! One is on the “y”, and the other is randomly tinging out in space just to the left of his/its wing.
January 7th, 2013 at 3:49 am
Short shameful confession: I’m one of those booksellers, kind of sort of. I shoot the pics for the greater glory of Good Show Sir, and because I enjoy the comments. But I volunteer at a friends of the library organization that does a monthly sale, and most of the covers I shoot are of books moving through our sale. They do move, SF&F sells well at our sales, and we get enough coming in that the books that don’t get moved along and out.
January 7th, 2013 at 9:54 am
@Frank – I am sure you aren’t the only book seller around! And we won’t hold it against you… mainly because you keep this site going! 😉 I kid of course.
Keep on selling those masterpieces! And remember just because it’s got a half man half cat robot naked wizard on the cover, doesn’t mean the contents aren’t good. But if you do find a cover like that… make sure to take a picture first!
January 25th, 2015 at 10:31 pm
A crazy-looking birdman, a giant foot and a woman with three asses? No wonder “Spectrum 4” was voted number one.
Meanwhile, “Assassination Anxiety” is such a hideous monstrosity of clip art that it guarantees I will never, ever read it.
January 7th, 2022 at 12:58 pm
The Killing Thing. I think they are still paying off the massive loan needed to finance the production of this cover.
January 7th, 2022 at 11:24 pm
Clicking for the original post leads to the internet disavowing all knowledge of these covers.
It’s worth going through the back-routes of GSS archives anyway, though.
January 8th, 2022 at 12:33 am
For when one end-of-year sum up isn’t enough!
#1: Science fiction inspired by Monty Python animation sequences?
#2: As part of its reproductive cycle, the Killer Thing buries some of its victims in dirt so its robo-eggs will have something to eat when they hatch.
#3: As AnnaT said, this cover is pretty much an anti-sales device.
#4: Adult indeed! Not only does he have quite a set of phallic symbols, but he’s riding what looks like a combination of a horse and a rooster, or a…
January 8th, 2022 at 1:54 am
I like how the answer to Admin’s first question is still “No.”
ISTBE is still at #1, with a 9.22 rating. Other really terrible covers have come and gone at the top spot, but that remains supreme.