Mar 17
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Naked people? You’re right, we can’t have two yellow glowing buck-naked people standing on some far away planet, with the man pointing upwards towards some awful green moon that takes up 80% of the cover. Oh I know, cover their jibblets with some storks. And we’re sorted!
Happy St. Patricks day! – Good Show Sir

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Tagged with: beard-wielding • bird • C.S. Lewis • Cosmic series • damsel • dude • fantastical rock star • glow • HarperCollins Books • muscles • planets • space • Space Trilogy • starkers • strange creature • Unknown Artist Institute
Mar 16
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Eighties cartoons are just fantastic, aren’t they. Wait a second… What if we go for that eighties look? Musclebound guy wearing strange straps which have no benefit and gold bracelets. Holding aloft his magic glowing scepter. No one is going to forget this cover anytime soon!

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Tagged with: ant people • antennae • baldness • Bio of a Space Tyrant series • bladed weapons • bracers • dude • evil • eyepatch • gun • HarperCollins Books • moon • muscles • Piers Anthony • planets • skulls a-poppin' • space • strapping outfit • Ting! • Unknown Artist Institute • utility belt • weird pecs
Mar 10
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Holy crap. We need something to distract from that bright silver font we’re using. So, how about a guy with an eye patch posing with weapons and a women doing the very same thing. Put a moon in the background, and by background I mean most of the cover.

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Tagged with: ax-wielding • BEHIND YOU! • black number one • bladed weapons • cloaks • daggers • damsel • dude • eyepatch • font problems • Hawk & Fisher series • Jon Sullivan • moon • Orion Books • proportional issues • shiny oh so shiny • Simon R. Green • space • sword • waistcoat • WTF
Mar 04
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I’ve been on that Good Show Sir site and I know everything at the moment is about nipples! Here my friend we will defy convention. Cleavage but no nipples. Also, she’ll be kinda silver, jumping out of awful looking flames towards a star. Oh yeahhh, consider that convention defied!

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Tagged with: alien city • Ann Maxwell • cleavage • damsel • Elizabeth Lowell • fire • Orbit Books • planets • space
Feb 24
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Throw out this idea of a whole picture and think in terms of layers. Just concentrate on four of them, a women with a bad hair cut firing a laser, a tiny women in a floating tea cup, a huge bald guy about to attack and some people in an arena watching. Slap it all together and we’re sorted!

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Tagged with: Anne McCaffrey • damsel • Elizabeth Moon • frickin laser beams • Mark Harrison • Orbit Books • space • The Planet Pirates series • WTF
Feb 17
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I don’t know where I’ve been for the past few days, but I found this written on the back of my hand: Blue black skin, golden eyes, brain tubes, explosions, horrified expression, spaced out look, glass dome head.
Oh wait, it’s just all the classic symptoms of reading a collection of Sci-Fi stories.

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Tagged with: aliens • Arthur C. Clarke • Brian W. Aldiss • Christopher Priest • Corgi Books • Donald A. Wollheim • E.C. Tubb • Good Show Sir • Harry Harrison • James White • John Kippax • John Rackham • Kenneth Bulmer • Laurence James • New Writings In SF series • space • Sydney J. Bounds • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF
Feb 15
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Look, with this we’re in a win-win situation. How could we go wrong with a space ship going through some sort of light speed travel and the captain pointing at a huge shiny hologram of a person? Just as long as we keep the fonts subtle we’ll be fine.

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Tagged with: Baen Books • David Mattingly • David Weber • floating head • font problems • Honorverse series • once you see it • pointing • shiny oh so shiny • shuriken of approval • space • space ships
Feb 04
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I’ll tell you want you need. And skin it for free. Sorry, I mean what you need are bubble helmets and plenty of them. Nothing screams, ‘we’re in the future’ more than bubble helmets. With space suits of different unnecessarily bright colours. It’s the new retro. Or, the same as the previous retro… pretro?

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Tagged with: beard-wielding • bubble helmet • damsel • dude • ill-fitting spacesuit • Julie Bell • Michael Flynn • space • Tor Books
Dec 17
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Really… winning? Green? With a gold photoshop glow? Really? Well best add an exploding space ship in there too. Oh and some babe in a space suit completely ignoring the explosion. Hopefully that will distract from our winning colour.

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Tagged with: casually walking away from an explosion • damsel • Elizabeth Moon • explosion • Fred Gambino • Orbit Books • Serrano Legacy series • shoulder pads • space • space ships
Dec 11
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Guy sits uncomfortably on the tail of a space shuttle. Don’t forget huge shiny text. And we’ll have to quote another one of her books, something that will really appeal to those hardcore Sci-Fi readers. Oh oh! I know. Dragons of Pern. Ace!

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Tagged with: Anne McCaffrey • Ballantine Books • dude • font problems • Michael Whelan • shiny oh so shiny • space • space ships
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