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Baba O’Reilly Comments: “Have they not finished spray-painting my dildo palace yet?”

Published 1950

(Average: 7.86 out of 10)

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Bellatrix Comments: A two-fer: “The Best of A.E. van Vogt” and “The Worst of Harry Bennett”.

Published 1976

(Average: 7.14 out of 10)

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Priscilla’s Art Direction: I want a manly cover filled with masculine symbolism. I want the cover to scream “look at me, I’m hard sf”. So don’t just dick around on this one. Make it pop!

Published 1975

(Average: 5.29 out of 10)

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Marvin Comments: Virtual Reality Rodeo

You might remember this from here.

Published 1958

(Average: 6.14 out of 10)

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JuanPaul Comments: “I wonder if that’s true: the king goes down with the planet…”

Published 1987

(Average: 7.86 out of 10)

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Bellatrix Comments: Uh-oh. 23andMe just located my long-lost triplet cousins.

Published 1976

(Average: 8.00 out of 10)

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Alfred Comments: I’m so sorry. The sign said “In case of emergency break glass”. Are you OK?

Published 1963

(Average: 6.86 out of 10)

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Tag Wizard here wishing you all a Happy New Year! 2016 was an awful year in general but very disruptive here at Good Show Sir. Because of financial losses caused by continued unfair competition by Chinese Good Show Sir, GSS Admin left for St. Petersburg in midsummer to be administrator for a Russian troll farm and fake news site. No cause for alarm, he hopes to get an exit visa and return any day now. After Brexit our entire staff of embittered and poorly paid Polish tag minions quit en masse, but not before pilfering all of our office supplies. And this was the year our iconic I Sing the Body Electric cover was continually knocked out of the Top Ten by flashy, trendy, more-recent covers. Fortunately it is back in the favourites, no doubt thanks to GSS Admin’s troll army. Hopefully 2017 will be a much better year. It can’t be any worse than 2016!

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

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Before he left, GSS Admin said this was his chosen favourite:

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And my chosen favourite from the year:

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(Average: 8.14 out of 10)

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Dear gender inclusive Sirs,

It is with heavy heart that I must tell you today’s broadcast has been interrupted by unforseen circumstances affecting the ferret-powered / ferret-eaten Good Show Sir server.

Either that or we’ve been accosted by the masses of IO9 / BoingBoing / MeFi / Reddit, incensed that such an obviously amateur and inadequately snark-filled operation cannot scale up in time to support a substantial increase in traffic. Sorry!

In addition, GSS Admin, who is currently in foreign lands, had to “run off to an early meeting and then get thrown out of a hotel,” taking the keys to the GSS email account with him. Ominous.

So all I have for you is this blank post draft I found, entitled “Encounter.” The suspects:

ISFDB: Encounter by J. Hunter Holly, Avalon Books 1959, illustrated by Emsh http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?251811
ISFDB: Encounter by J. Hunter Holly, Monarch Books 1962, illustrated by Jack Schoenherr http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?265631

Have at it, and have a jolly weekend!
TW

(Average: 8.14 out of 10)

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Emster Comments: The ants were about to exact their revenge for the magnifying glass incident.

Published 1992

(Average: 6.00 out of 10)

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