Good Show Sir

Nov 27

Bibliomancer Comments: Ziggy Stardust and the all-girl Devo tribute band are about to take the stage!
Published 1987

(Average: 8.14 out of 10)

Tagged with: Berkley Books • booties • damsel • David Mattingly • dude • E.E. "Doc" Smith • fantastical rock star • floating head • interpretive dance • jazz hands • jumpsuit • lens flare • Lensman Series • once you see it • planets • space suit • suggestive • Ting! • white number six

Feb 29

The Iron Dream

44 Comments »

Decked out in leather... on space rocket cycle... I don't think that particular dream got through. Click for full image

Noel’s Art Direction: I want a nice subtle cover. Nothing too controversial.
Published 1974

(Average: 8.14 out of 10)

Tagged with: Bob Haberfield • hoverbike • mighty moustache • motorcycle • nazi • Norman Spinrad • Panther Books • shuriken of approval • tasteful smoke

Sep 12

Genus Homo

18 Comments »

Homo says 'What?' Click for larger image

Uh, whose hand is that at the bottom? Click for larger image

It’s a Two-Fer Tuesday – Genus Homo Edition

Good Show Sir Comments:
1. You know, when you think about it, every morning we wake up and find ourselves the only human beings alive.
2. “Don’t shoot him! I was just lending him my eyebrow pencil”!

Published 1941, 1961

(Average: 8.14 out of 10)

Tagged with: ape people • Berkley Books • big gun • damsel • dude • L. Sprague De Camp • Leo Morey • lion people • once you see it • P. Schuyler Miller • Richard Powers • starkers • Super Science Novels • two-fer • WTF

Oct 21

The Tomb

23 Comments »

Should have kept this one buried Click for larger image

Verylatetotheparty Comments: I can’t believe anybody would choose that font. If the only brief was a piece of paper with ‘title: The Tomb’ written on it, nobody would choose that font. Even the skull on the cover looks like it can’t believe that font.

Published 1970

(Average: 8.14 out of 10)

Tagged with: dead eyes • eye-yi-yi • font problems • H.P. Lovecraft • Panther Books • skulls a-poppin' • Tony Marshall

Jan 09

Old Year Sum Up 2016

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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:

Mmmm... uhhh... I'll just take the bus. Click for original post

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

The only concert to end in casting hellfire on the audience! Click for original post

And my chosen favourite from the year:

Click for original post

(Average: 8.14 out of 10)

Tagged with: Happy New Year • Old Year Sum Up

May 31

Encounter

15 Comments »

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)

Mar 29

The Illuminati of Immortality

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Cathal’s Art Direction: It’s quite simple. A flaming-winged, bikini-clad woman with a sun for a head, rising out of a lopsided cauldron. And an amazon with a flaming arrow. See if you can make the amazon lopsided too, maybe give her two left legs… Looking good!
Published 1992

Many thanks to Cathal!

(Average: 8.13 out of 10)

Tagged with: archery weapons • bikini • bracers • cauldron • cleavage • damsel • fire • headband • longbow • New Falcon Press • proportional issues • Robert Anton Wilson • sun • sunhead • Unknown Artist Institute • Wayne Saalman • wings • WTF

Mar 04

Changer of Worlds

19 Comments »

SPACE KAT IZ JUS 2 KEWL 2 LOOK AT EXPLOSHUNS. Click for full image

Good Show Sir Comments: Nothing says, “classic” like a good ol’ shiny cover! Baen, you never fail to impress! I hope you never change.
Published 2001

Many thanks to Rachel and Thomas!

(Average: 8.13 out of 10)

Tagged with: anthropomorphism • Baen Books • BEHIND YOU! • Carol Heyer • Cats! • David Weber • explosions • eye-yi-yi • fire • purple number three • shiny oh so shiny • sky-eyes • space ships • strange creature