Good Show Sir

Jan 15

Tom Luczycki’s Art Direction: I need a guy astride a giant walking fish-thing accompanied by a metallic angel with nippless bazooms. Could you have the guy holding an impossibly small and ineffective bow? Forget about the arrows. The bow is more a symbol for the subtext of the underlying metaphor. And moths. The moths should round things out nicely.

Published 1983

(Average: 6.42 out of 10)

Tagged with: butterfly • devil's dumplings • dude • Frederik Pohl • Jack Williamson • Kevin Johnson • lizard • loincloth • Nelson Doubleday SFBC • statue • wings

Jan 11

Stellar #2

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He misunderstood when they entered him in the dressage event. Click for larger image

Good Show Sir Comments: Surprisingly, he got these trousers off the rack. He just bought two pair and had the tailor do some arse alterations.

Published 1976

(Average: 4.48 out of 10)

Tagged with: Ballantine Books • bighanditis • Centaur! • dress for success • font problems • Greg Hildebrandt • Judy-Lynn del Rey • Stellar Science Fiction Stories Series • Tim Hildebrandt • top hat

Jan 10

The Mists of Doom

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I think I need a band-aid. Click for larger image

George Comments: Couldn’t find his loincloth this morning. Had to use the bedsheet.

Published 1980

(Average: 7.05 out of 10)

Tagged with: Ace Books • Andrew J. Offutt • cleavage • dude • Faux-nan • font problems • muscles • Robert E. Howard • sheets • sixpack abs • sword • Ting! • Unknown Artist Institute

Jan 09

Lust in Orbit

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Rocket in my pocket Click for larger image

Click here for back cover

Paula Comments: Not sure if this qualifies as science fiction. But it has the word “rockets” on the cover!

Close enough to start launching some missile puns. – GSS

Published 1962

(Average: 3.97 out of 10)

Tagged with: Beacon Books • cleavage • damsel • gams • Jim Layne • sexytime • Unknown Artist Institute

Jan 08

Lord of the Trees

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Lord Gaystroke Click for larger image

Bibliomancer Comments: “No puppet. No puppet. You’re the puppet!”

Published 1970

(Average: 7.20 out of 10)

Tagged with: Ace Books • anatomical issues • dude • font problems • Gray Morrow • loincloth • muscles • Philip José Farmer • sixpack abs • Tar-sham • tree people • weird pecs

Jan 04

Old Year Sum Up 2017

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Happy Good Riddance 2017 and in with a New Year. This is the beginning of our ninth year here at Good Show Sir and it seems like barely nineteen years have flown by. And we have a whole 15 months to plan on something really special for our gala 10th anniversary. And a 10th anniversary means a special gift for all … let me look that one up … ah tin or aluminum! So next year we’ll celebrate with tins of spam and cans of Boddington’s for everyone at the gala event. Look for your invitation in the email spam folder.

On the plus side, we welcome some new friends to the madhouse, GSS ex-noob, Tor Mented, Raoul, Longtime_Lurker, and many, many, too many more to mention. Flashback Fridays have become a run-away hit (with the staff). But don’t think we’re sloughing off here because you get that extra cover back on Two-fer Tuesdays and we get to sneak out the door early on Liquid Lunch Thursdays to enjoy our three-day weekends. Our staff has also proposed we introduce Bank Holiday Mondays each week but we are still focus-grouping that idea.

On to the honours. First, the top rated cover of last year:

No! I am the Lizard King! Click for full image

… which seems like cheating since our demographic can’t seem to get enough of the Old Dick. Highest rated cover not a Blade book:

Heisenberg is uncertain about this cover Click for larger image

We asked GSS Admin for his favourite and he shouted through the locked door “anything with tits on it”:

She's like the Mona Lisa of sex robots Click for sheep removal

And we asked Tag Wizard’s for his chosen favourite from the year and he said “Hot Stuff”:

Nipple targeting program activated.... Click for full image

(Average: 8.10 out of 10)

Tagged with: Happy New Year • Old Year Sum Up

Dec 22

Christmas Mega Post 2017

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Time to get out there and win the War on Christmas. With any luck it will be vanquished!

As we kick 2017 in the pants and say goodbye it is time again to stuff your stockings with some terrible cover GIFts you can’t return. Time to start my shopping and pink slip the elves who won’t be needed again until this time next year. I think the North Pole is above the Arctic Circle in some EU country so Brexit was going to give them the boot anyway.

Have a happy holiday and we’ll see you in a couple weeks with our Old Year Sum Up!

Red Hawk Down! Click for larger image

On Dasher! On Dancer! On Prancer! On Vixen! Click for gayer image

The War on Christmas: Episode 2: Christmas Strikes Back! Click for larger image

And click here to read the back cover

Let me try this shoe on you, Cinderella Click for larger image

Good Show Sir Comments: A Holiday Play in Four Acts:

Act 1. Incoming sled and reindeer, missiles ready, prepare to intercept!

Act 2. Don we now our gay apparatus!

Act 3. Slay bells ring!

Act 4. Tonight we’re gonna party like it’s 1939!

(Average: 7.88 out of 10)

Tagged with: Christmas • MEGA POST

Dec 21

Lee Moyer Cover Recreations

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Lee Moyer, artist, designer and illustrator, has created a gallery of sci-fi cover recreations on his website.

We first heard about this pastime from our lovely and talented GSS ex-noob in a comment back on “The Light of Lilith”:

My people of GSS:

At a convention this past weekend, I went to a slideshow of bad SF/F covers. Most of them have been seen here. Then we re-enacted a few.

I am pleased to report that upon being shown our old pal ISTBE fractal centaur, the Artist Guest of Honor literally shrieked and recoiled, taking a step away from the picture. Quite literally taken aback and repelled.

In the reenactment, I played one of the bored background lizard women in
http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=12947 (with my regular clothes on!) whilst the octopus was two people covered in jackets and hoodies.

http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=12956 could not be re-enacted as the hero could not actually support the damsel in that position with one arm, being a mere mortal.

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Since this teaser we have been able to access these lovely/terrible cover recreations as well as many others over on Lee Moyer’s site. I’ll let GSS ex-noob tell the tale:

1. We started off small — here’s me as the dead body (I’m not actually bald…)

GSS ex-noob gets a tag! Click to visit Lee Moyer’s Gallery

2. Then myself and my athletic pal posed for the bored background women, while rather a lot of people were the octopus.

No cephalopods were harmed during this recreation Click to visit Lee Moyer’s Gallery

Filling out the gallery are a number of well-done recreations of many of our favourite covers. Maybe if we all ask really nice Mr. Moyer can reenact I Sing the Body Electric someday!

The Discovery Recreation Click to visit Lee Moyer’s Gallery