Jun 18
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Good Show Sir’s Art Direction: OH NO! I forgot all about that bloody book cover… crap it’s due tomorrow. Oh man… WAIT… is your son still in that drama club? Great! We’ll head over, get some props, slap a wig on a skeleton and take a picture. It’s better than nothing… right?
Published 1973

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Tagged with: Good Show Sir • Haircut 100 • New English Library • Robert A. Heinlein • skeletons • skulls a-poppin' • tasteful smoke • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF
Aug 02
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Good Show Sir Comments: When conducting a space orchestra it’s helpful to have men with laser weaponry for motivation!
Published 1969
Many thanks to Robert Van N for sending this in!

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Tagged with: Ace Books • aliens • font problems • giant insects • gun • helmet • Jack Gaughan • Jack Vance • jumpsuit • ridiculous hat • starkers • strange creature • wand • WTF
Oct 20
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Joachim Comments: Even this Captain Kirk clone wouldn’t run after that alien woman…. The crazy yellow acorn headed face must be compelling him.
Published 1968

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Tagged with: Ace Books • aliens • damsel • Dean R. Koontz • dude • evil children • frickin laser beams • Gray Morrow • handguns • space ships
Aug 24
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Bookworm Bas Comments: I prefer the other ‘The Star Beast’ cover. Aside from the background and the questionable suit coloring at least the artist got the lummox roughly right; on the other hand maybe it is better to have the reader use thier own imagination.
Published 1971
Many thanks to Bookworm!

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Tagged with: aliens • Jan Parker • New English Library • Robert A. Heinlein • strange creature • WTF
Aug 24
Another long weekend to celebrate the UK’s closing of banks! That can only mean one thing here at Good Show Sir… Honourable Mentions! Today we have a nice selection of franchise books that would be otherwise excluded by our iron forged rules.
Hope you enjoy these, I’ve even thrown in a special something at the end. Enjoy your long weekend if you get it and remember, books rule! Support your local bookery.
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Bonus CD Cover!! Badly photoshopped accordion player:
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Tagged with: anthropomorphism • capes • cloaks • computers • cybernetics • damsel • dude • font problems • glow • Honourable Mentions • Jeff Grubb • Kate Novak • magic • monsters • music • Penguin Science Fiction • Roc Books • Sam Lewis • Stephen Billia • Steven Savile • strange creature • Unknown Artist Institute • Warner Books • WTF
Aug 25
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Good Show Sir Comments German cover artists take the book titles VERY seriously.
Thanks to Klaus for sending this in.
Published 1993

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Tagged with: Damon Knight • dickless wonder • dude • German • Heyne Bücher • muscles • starkers • tree • Zoltán Boros
Jul 16
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J Greely Comments: I’d love to snark about Saa the ancient fish-man, but the truth is that I loved this book so much that I stole it from my second-grade teacher.
Published 1972

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Tagged with: baldness • Emanuel Schongut • fish people • Gerry Turner • Scholastic Books • Web of Intruige!
Apr 11
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Joachim Comments: “Devil dude,” said the blonde-headed potbellied forest spirit,”I’m not into your steroid enhanced red muscles with sheathing belly skin around the bottom look.”
Published 1995

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Tagged with: chains • Clifford D. Simak • daemons • Haircut 100 • horns • J'ai Lu books • monsters • moon • Philippe Caza • strange creature • WTF
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