Feb 12
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This guy just dropped a steaming load of bad covers on GSS Admin, so the boss told me to make this “JuanPaul Week”. Register your complaints using the handy “submit” button above. Plus, send in at least four high-quality losers and next week may be all yours! Enjoy! — Tag
JuanPaul Comments: Try pronouncing the author’s last name with a thick and exaggerated Russian accent. It’s good fun.
Published 1985

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Tagged with: Alan Hruska • Baen Books • damsel • dude • floating face • font problems • Jael • kissy face • sexytime • space
Feb 10
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Charles Comments: “I can sell you a Jesus Christ. Cheap. Only 356 credits.”
Published 1972

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Tagged with: baldness • cape • ear rings • Jan Parker • little people • New English Library • old-timer • people in bottles • ridiculous collar • Stuart Gordon • time travel
Oct 21
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Chris D Comments: I quite like this cover. As far as following the plot, I suppose that the vacuum tube with the face in is meant to be one of the computers with a human brain. I also like that it was probably completed in just under a half hour.
Published 1967

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Tagged with: Alan Aldridge • detachable head • dude • electricity • Frank Herbert • my head aplode • Penguin Science Fiction • space suits • WTF
Jun 30
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Good Show Sir Comments: A reminder not to drop acid before you go to work.
Published 1978

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Tagged with: A Del Rey Book • butterfly • Darrell K. Sweet • Jack L. Chalker • mighty moustache • strange creature • WTF
Mar 16

Art direction: Sorry? Oh, I was thinking that I’d like a really realistic drawing of a prince looking fellow on a big sci-fi chair, holding a nerd pouch and motioning towards some magic crystals. Don’t forget to put the ruby dice in there! After all, that is the name of the book!

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Tagged with: Baen Books • Catherine Asaro • dice • dude • font problems • gemstones • Kurt Miller • Nebula award • paging John Galliano • pouch • prince • Saga of the Skolian Empire • shuriken of approval • throne
Dec 01
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Noel Comments: Aliens & Probes. Never a good combination.
Published 1965

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Tagged with: Badger Books • cleavage • damsel • dude • ill-fitting spacesuit • R.L. Fanthorpe • ruins • tasteful smoke • Unknown Artist Institute
Jul 14
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Good Show Sir Art Direction: Don’t bother painting a cover. Try to push the new Star of the Guardians action figures.
Published 1991

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Tagged with: Bantam Spectra • bladed weapons • blondie • booties • cave • damsel • dude • Haircut 100 • jumpsuit • Margaret Weis • none more black • plastic people • Stephen Youll • water pistol
Mar 16
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Bibliomancer Comments: You’d be shooting up too if your girlfriend ran off with a lizard people.
Published 1977

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Tagged with: balls • Brian M. Stableford • damsel • DAW Books • drug paraphernalia • dude • eye-yi-yi • floating head • lizard people • Michael Whelan
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