Good Show Sir

Nov 12

Tom Herring Comments: In space, no one can hear you scream. And why are you screaming? Because in space, you CAN hear THESE fingernails on a chalkboard!
Published 1981

(Average: 7.36 out of 10)

Tagged with: Leisure Books • Michael Kring • moon • once you see it • planets • space ships • space suit • talons • Ting!

Oct 02

The Road to Science Fiction: From Gilgamesh to Wells

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Nope... we preferred it when Mary Poppins was our nanny... Click for full image

Good Show Sir Comments: That’s the last time I buy cheap toilet roll from the pound store! *crowds reaction*
Published 1977 (maybe)

Many thanks to Sophy!

(Average: 5.96 out of 10)

Tagged with: Ambrose Bierce • busy hands • clouds • Cyrano de Bergerac • dismemberment • dude • Edgar Allan Poe • Edward Bellamy • fedora hat • fire • Fitz-James O'Brien • font problems • Francis Bacon • H. Rider Haggard • H.G. Wells • James Gunn • Johannes Kepler • Jonathan Swift • Jules Verne • Lucian of Samosata • Ludvig Holberg • magical orbs • Mary Shelley • Mentor Books • moon • Nathaniel Hawthorne • once you see it • Rudyard Kipling • Sir Thomas More • Tommaso Campanella • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF

Sep 11

Acorna’s Search

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All he wanted was a unicorn... he had to settle for a girl-a-corn... Click for full image

Wesley Comments: Acorna’s Search, or The Daydreams of Cosplay Fail Girl.
Published 2001

Bonus: dust jacket blurb here!

(Average: 6.15 out of 10)

Tagged with: Anne McCaffrey • damsel • dude • elf • Elizabeth Scarborough • embossing • flowers • font problems • horns • horses • John Ennis • moon • people with hooves • planets • robes • space ships • unicorn people • Unicorns! • white-clothed protagonist • wraparound cover • WTF

Sep 03

Chaining the Lady

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One day, Jones, my collection of historical space postcards would be complete Click for full UNSHEEPED image

Lauren F Comments: Two covers for the price of one! But you’ll spend all your time trying to figure out the front cover so they may as well have left the back cover blank.
Published 1978

(Average: 5.80 out of 10)

Tagged with: aliens • architectural framing • Avon Books • capes • damsel • devil's dumplings • explosions • frickin laser beams • giant insects • magical orbs • moon • once you see it • Piers Anthony • planets • Ron Walotsky • space sheep • space ships • space suit • starkers • tentacles

Aug 23

Armada Sci-Fi 2

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Home Alone 3 - Attack of the squids! Click for full image

Scott B comments:Maybe I’ve been reading too much science fiction, but for some reason I’m less disturbed by the one-eyed two-headed(? -brained?) tentacular thing there, and more curious about why it’s wearing multiple belts.
Published 1975

(Average: 8.39 out of 10)

Tagged with: aliens • Armada books • Chris Parr • David Campton • dude • Elizabeth Fancett • eye-yi-yi • James Cawthorn • Jocelyn Graves • moon • Pamela Cleaver • Richard Davis • Rosemary Timperley • sweaterworld • tentacles • Tim Stout • Unknown Artist Institute • yellow number two

Jul 26

Greyland

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Another victim of demensia woke up not knowing where he was Click for full image

Frank McC comments: First I thought “wonder if that guy on the cover realizes how close he came to getting whacked upside the head by that rocket” and then I saw the “unimaginable demensions”.
Published 1972

(Average: 6.52 out of 10)

Tagged with: "a novel" • +1 Protection from Spelling • Belmont Books • Dave Van Arnam • giant • moon • once you see it • planets • portal to another world • rocket • space • space ships • space suit • Unknown Artist Institute

Jul 17

Trouble With Lichen

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Here it is detective... the shot Lichen... Click for full image

Rachel J’s Art Direction: I promised you could do the cover for Wyndhams latest and here it is: Trouble with… Lichen… Uh, well, anyway, good luck with that..
Published 1963

(Average: 7.00 out of 10)

Tagged with: John Griffths • John Wyndham • moon • Penguin Science Fiction • WTF

Jul 02