Click for full imageThat’s right! It is finally here – Good Show Sir: The Book! It’s taken me a while to write because of the many pre-conjunctions but it’s coming out this month! My family and friends told me my real name isn’t strong enough so I have chosen a pen name to write under.
Title: Good Show Sir
Author: Dr. J. R. Asimov
Publisher: Self Published
Publish Date: 1st April 2013
Synopsis: Gilbert W. Izard is a mild-mannered book editor in search of that one special cover with everything on it. One day he happens upon a strange antique tome that leads him into a hidden world and on an adventure that neither he… NOR YOU… will ever forget.
And I even have a special treat for you! An excerpt from the book itself.
“Nooooo!” screamed Space Sheep the anthropomorphic cyborg sheepmage, as he dove in front of Evil Floating C.S.Lewis’ head’s laser beam.
Space Sheep lay on the ground motionless for he had taken the bullet laser for Tiffany deLarge Cleavage. She bounced over to him wearing her female adventurers outfit, just enough to cover her devil’s dumplings and glared at Evil C.S.Lewis’s floating head. “You monster,” she muttered sorrowfully.
“That’s right,” proclaimed the Floating Evil Head of C.S. Lewis, “there is no-one left to stop me!”
Suddenly there was a voice.
“Think again Lewis!” said Gilbert W. Izard, a man of granite with muscles loved throughout every nation. He was: the greatest fighter in all the realm; a lover of women (apart from that one time in university); a dragon tamer; a skilled knife fighter; Pac-Man 2008 Blackpool International champion; a practicing magician; part time charity shop worker and, most importantly, an art director. “Kill you, I will, Lewis!”
Gilbert lunged forward with all his mighty strength as the Knife of Expelium plunged deeply through the forehead skin of Evil Floating C.Lewis’ head.
After dying about an hour later, they all gathered around Space Sheep. “He was my friend…” acclaimed Timanus the Man Tiger.
“Don’t,” – Space Sheep coughed up blood and a bit of last nights lamb curry – “count me out yet!”
“As the old saying goes: adepto a generica metaphoricus postea!”
Good Show Sir – the novel – is available from:
Counter of Oxfam Second Hand Book Shop (Luton Branch)
Costa Coffee (Stirling Motorway Services Area M8)
(Average: 8.58 out of 10)
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April 1st, 2013 at 9:08 am
@GoodShowSir First of the month aside, this is a GREAT idea …
April 1st, 2013 at 10:21 am
I would read this in public with pride.
April 1st, 2013 at 10:36 am
Oh my, I just translated space sheeps Latin. Good show indeed sir! I’m going to be snickering out of context all night 🙂
April 1st, 2013 at 11:38 am
Typical, needs a “BEHIND YOU!” somewhere. 😉
What fun!
April 1st, 2013 at 12:34 pm
wtf?
Who’s the fool?
April 1st, 2013 at 1:34 pm
You can trust the writer, he’s a doctor!
April 1st, 2013 at 2:05 pm
Magnifico! Das ist wunderbar! But where, of where, is the space dinosaur? Did Intergalactic T-Rex get caught up in traffic and miss the photo-shop shoot?
April 1st, 2013 at 5:01 pm
Many consider Dr. Asimov the inspiration for Jar Jar Binks.
April 1st, 2013 at 6:06 pm
What – no TING! ? :O
April 1st, 2013 at 8:26 pm
I find those double planets somehow… sexy.
April 1st, 2013 at 9:20 pm
@Tom Noir – haha they do look a little… bum like! Well spotted 😉
@Herm – Isn’t that a TING! On the end of the guys sword? Maybe a super ting!
April 2nd, 2013 at 12:20 pm
Is that the author on the cover? With swirly tattoos?
It looks like ting on the man-tigers sword hilt.
Good Show Sir. Best cover this month.
April 2nd, 2013 at 2:24 pm
Nice to see Thora Birch is still getting work.
April 2nd, 2013 at 7:59 pm
Ha! oh man I wish I checked this site yesterday. That is one April Fools I wish was real.
April 2nd, 2013 at 9:37 pm
I sooo, so want a copy of this book. Anyone know a universe where I can get one?
April 3rd, 2013 at 2:05 pm
I think the blurbs should have been more cobbled-together, Baen style.
“I…read…this book.” -Neil Gaiman
April 10th, 2013 at 7:52 pm
@THX1138, judging by the space sheep’s placement, she must be doing another American Beauty-type scene where she has to bare her breasts.
And doesn’t the wizard look like Neil Patrick Harris?
May 4th, 2013 at 11:50 am
THE CRITICS ARE RAVING about Dr. J. R. Asimov’s new book:
‘…it will probably sell quite well…deathless prose…seamless and magnificent…the whole publishing game is mak[ing] money…at least here in the states he has nipples.’
–Q. Mammoth, Superlative Online Book Reviews
October 15th, 2013 at 7:32 pm
THE CRITICS ARE SOILING THEMSELVES AND THE NEIGHBOURS about Dr. J. R. Asimov’s new book:
‘…some decent points…I looked on the internet for more…most people will go [to] this website.’
-Rosario T. Vampire, Processed Luncheon Meat Monthly
December 21st, 2015 at 2:04 pm
I’ll wait for the movie.
July 1st, 2017 at 4:49 am
I like how Mr. GW Izard is an editor AND an art director. Not for him, the banal conventions of continuity!
I might have preferred to see Evil CSL Head on here too.
April 1st, 2022 at 5:00 pm
The audio book version being available only on 8-track was disappointing.
April 1st, 2022 at 5:39 pm
I guess “Font Problems” would be the least of our concerns here.
April 1st, 2022 at 9:02 pm
What is the L. Ron Hubbard technique for turning this into a blockbuster?
April 1st, 2022 at 9:13 pm
A rabbi, a priest, two midgets, and a duck walk into a bar.
The bartender said: “Is this some kind of joke?”
April 2nd, 2022 at 1:10 am
This should have been reviewed by “Stefon” on SNL, because this book has everything.
I just now noticed that next to last line says Space Sheep is a cannibal.
@BC: IKR? I barely even noticed the fonts.
@Tor: Spend millions of dollars and lose more than that, while bankrupting the production company a few years later?
(Mind you, the movie of this book would probably be better.)
April 3rd, 2022 at 2:59 am
Ah, the good-ish (passable? acceptable?) Doctor….
I agree with Tom Noir’s comment on the original – the blurbs needed more work. Not fractured enough.
Does seem wrong that Evil Floating C. S. Lewis Head is the villain in this novel, but isn’t pictured on the cover. Maybe the self-publisher was worried about a lawsuit from heirs or from the spirit of C. S. Lewis himself….