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

Published 1961

(Average: 5.42 out of 10)

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Good Show Sir Comments: Breaking News from Baen Books! Our esteemed colleagues at Baen have released an Advanced e-Reader’s Copy of the latest installment in the wildly popular Man-Kzin Wars series and we’d like to be one of the first to give them all the free publicity they can stand.

THE POPULAR MAN-KZIN WARS SERIES ROARS BACK INTO ACTION! New stories of the war between humanity and the catlike Kzin from Brad R. Torgersen, Brendan DuBois, Martin L. Shoemaker, and more!

Get the EARC today! #ebook #amreadinghttps://t.co/mD1hPO5KXp

— Baen Books (@BaenBooks) December 10, 2018

Lately we have been made to realize that some of us at Good Show Sir have been a bit harsh on the Baen enterprise (looking at you, ex-Noob 😄 ). Some Baen honchos believe we go too far in featuring so many splendid and, I must admit, VERY COMPETENT WORKS OF ART done by their artist minions on a weblog with the temerity to feature the byline “Only the worst Sci-fi/Fantasy book covers”. C’mon guys, you know that by “terrible” we mean “awesome”. Get on fleek with how the kids are slangin’ these days.

We give a tip-of-the-bowler-hat to today’s featured cover artist Steve Hickman. What can we say but IT IS GOOD ART. Not some Unknown Artist Institute™ knock-off. In fact, one might expect to see this hanging in some tony Soho art gallery, except that, you know, it’s a cat-person portrait and all that. But the talent is there for all to see. He looks so real you can almost smell him!

So anyway people, check out Man-Kzin Wars XV! That’s number XV! If they are numbering them like Super Bowls you know they got to be good. Buy more Baen Books! Our future here at GSS depends on far-sighted publishers like Baen keepin’ the faith.

–GSS Admin

[P.S. to our friends at Baen. Don’t feel that sending us free swag like new books and single-malt whiskey is a violation of our Code of Ethics!]

#BeBest

(Average: 5.83 out of 10)

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Good Show Sir Comments: “Urania” (Italian for “Your Ass!”) is a science fiction magazine that has been around forever and apparently is still in business. So I guess we could call this an Italian Honourable Mentions as well as an Italian Megapost. Anyway, have at it, and divertiti!

Uno. Wait until he discovers you have to put your feet through the floorboards to drive it away.

Due. Say ciao to my little friend!

Tre. At least this solves my unibrow problem.

Quattro. They call me Signore Spock.

Published 1955, 1958, 1959, 1960

Thanks to Armando for sending these in!

(Average: 8.33 out of 10)

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Verylatetotheparty Comments: I bought several “Mayflower Moorcocks” at my Oxfam shop a few years back and some of the covers have already been on GSS, but I don’t think you have this one yet and I really think it belongs here. The colours sort of look faded but I think it was that bad originally. Apart from that I will let it speak for itself.

Published 1973

(Average: 7.50 out of 10)

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Ralph E. Comments: Don’t you hate when time-traveling grandma catches you downloading porn.

Published 1995

(Average: 7.75 out of 10)

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Marvin Comments: Wear a bubble helmet? I’d rather asphyxiate than mess my hair!

Published 1960

(Average: 6.08 out of 10)

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Good Show Sir Comments: “♬♬♬♬♬♬♬♬
A-well-a ev’rybody’s heard about the bird
A-well-a, bird, bird, bird, well, the bird is the word
A-well-a, bird, bird, b-bird’s the word
A-well-a, don’t you know about the bird
Well, everybody knows that the bird is the word
A-well-a, bird, bird, b-bird’s the word
A-well-a ♬♬♬♬♬♬♬♬”

“Shut up damn you!”

“Let me at it!”

Published 1991

You might remember this from here.

(Average: 7.33 out of 10)

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Raoul Comments: Why do all the Native American science fiction books involve the same Anasazi tribe?

Published 1980

(Average: 8.33 out of 10)

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Marvin Comments: Is this suitable for two-fer Tuesday?

Published 1951

You might remember this from here.

(Average: 8.42 out of 10)

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Arthur Dent Comments: In the future, self-driving cars will still have issues.

Published 1996

(Average: 7.00 out of 10)

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