Good Show Sir

Jun 18

It’s a Two-fer Tuesday: Dominic Flandry Showcase

Good Show sir Comments:

1. Poul Anderson pulls a George R.R. Martin; kills off Flandry in a first chapter surprise!

2. Signet decides that putting Flandry’s face or name on the cover does not sell books.

Thanks to Charles for sending one in.

Published 1975, 1987

(Average: 3.88 out of 10)

Tagged with: damsel • devil's dumplings • Dominic Flandry Series • dude • frickin laser beams • Gene Szafran • moon • Poul Anderson • robot • Signet Books • starkers • tasteful smoke • Tim Hildebrandt • two-fer

May 06

Stargonauts

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Fast and Furious 13: Jason Statham and the Stargonauts Click for larger image

Outis Comments: This one truly has it all. Car-like, no-roof spaceship? Check. Chrome trim? Check. Scantily clad dame? Check. Dramatic posing? Check. Drinking on the job? Check. Gratuitous discharging of beam weapons? Check. And lastly: William Gibson recommendation? It’s there.

Published 1994

(Average: 6.91 out of 10)

Tagged with: chainmail lingerie • corinthian leather upholstery • crotch armor • damsel • David Garnett • drunkie • dude • font problems • frickin laser beams • Haircut 100 • Mike Posen • mohawk • Orbit Books • pew pew pew • space • suits you • sweet ride • teat shields • Ting!

Mar 11

Ten Years to Oblivion … the Good Show Sir Story!

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Look at the calendar. It seems we have a very important day circled there. No, it’s not a Monday Bank Holiday. It’s the Good Show Sir 10th Birthday Gala! I guess we need to post OUR GREATEST COVER EVER! Which, unfortunately, Tag Wizard forgot to organize. So we will just have to fish something out of the slush pile. At least the title is somewhat relevant.

Your 15 minutes of fame is up ... 9 years ago! Click for larger image

Good Show Comments: The whole Good Show Sir experience was eerily foretold in B. Flackes’ classic science fiction novel “Ten Years to Oblivion”!

Thanks to all of our GSS After Dark club members for making it to the JuJu Chelsea for a wild evening of wining and dining. And what a surprise! Thanks to our good friends at Baen for picking up the tab. Didn’t you know? They bought us out last month in an unfriendly takeover. Well it’s been a good run.

We even ordered a very appropriate birthday cake:

Who ordered the beefcake? Click for larger image

Good Show Comments: Yeah, it’s photoshopped. We bought one of those edible photo cakes and even sent over a picture of our favourite book cover on a thumb drive for the baker to put on the icing. Unfortunately this is what was delivered to the party:

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Good Show Comments: But thanks anyway to all the loyal kooks who have been showing up these many years and somehow keeping this shitshow going. And for all the commenters who have fallen by the wayside. And for the one-off drive-by’s who remind us that it was really a great book and the cover is very professionally done and shows something that was really in the story. Remember, the real Good Show Sir were the friends we made along the way. Or some such bollocks.

Oh no! Not another Harry Turtledove mashup! Click for larger image

Good Show Comments: … Let’s end the next decade with a bang!

Published 1951, 1964

(Average: 7.56 out of 10)

Tagged with: B. Flackes • castle • Chester Anderson • dude • Ed Emshwiller • font problems • frickin laser beams • George Ratcliffe • Good Show Sir • Hamilton & Co. • L.G. Holmes • Michael Kurland • numbers • rocket • Science Fiction

Dec 12

Lost City of the Damned

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Danger, Adventure and Forbidden Thrills! Major in Archaeology! Click for larger image

Marvin Comments: Caution! Do not stare at idol with remaining eye!

Published 1961

(Average: 5.73 out of 10)

Tagged with: adventure • Albert Nuetzel • Alec Rivere • anatomical issues • big hair • bighanditis • busy hands • cleavage • damsel • faceless • font problems • frickin laser beams • idol • little people • my head aplode • Pike Books

Aug 21

Lucky Starr and the Moons of Jupiter

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E-I-E Io! Click for larger image

Who's a good boy my ass! Click for larger image

It’s a Two-Fer Tuesday – Lucky Starr Edition!

Good Show Sir Comments:

1. Bad dog! Get back here and spit out the Captain!

2. Scooby Doo, where are you? Seriously.

Published 1957, 1978

Thanks to Alison for sending one in!

(Average: 7.50 out of 10)

Tagged with: Albert Orbaan • dog • Doubleday Books • dude • evil children • Fawcett Books • fight club • font problems • frickin laser beams • Isaac Asimov • John Berkey • Jupiter • little people • moon • Paul French • proportional issues • rocket • shoulder pads • tank

Mar 22

Honourable Mentions 18

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Magazines, franchise books, paper dolls and “non-fiction” occult. We have a potpourri jamboree here for another in our continuing series of Honourable Mentions. Keep us in your thoughts and prayers.

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Erik Tollstedt Comments: I want an image of Ernest Hemingway. He should be sitting on a purple couch in outer space. There should be papers flying away from his lap. Also, I’d like to see Ernest Hemingway’s head explode. But not in the normal way. It should explode into several other heads, one of them a sleeping hispanic man, and the other Emperor Ming. And have some sort of purple beam shoot out of his brain too. Yeah, that will convey “creative genius” like nothing else.
Published 1990

Laser Rhodan Click for larger image