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Tom Noir Comments: There’s a lot going on on this cover, so let me break it down for you: BLAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUGGGGGGHHHHHH!
Published 2000

(Average: 7.88 out of 10)

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Raoul Comments: I think it must be some kind of rebus.

You might remember this from here.

Published 1973

(Average: 7.88 out of 10)

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Alice Comments: “There. Feel the thin-edge of my annihilation!”

Published 1999

(Average: 7.88 out of 10)

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It’s a Two-fer Tuesday – Tomorrow, the Stars Special

Good Show Sir Comments:

#1. I need to get cable. I’m getting terrible TV reception with my helmet antenna.

#2. The condom costumes won first prize at the Halloween contest.

Thanks, Amy!

Published 1953, 1981

(Average: 7.88 out of 10)

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It’s a Two-fer Tuesday: Jack Vance J’ai Lu Jamboree

Good Show Sir Comments: I think the theme of both these covers is the French view of American football. In the future!

Thanks to Alain for sending these in!

Published 1983

You might remember this from here.

(Average: 7.88 out of 10)

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Lillie Awesome Art Direction: Give me a little man, with a giant bird grafted to his head, and out of the giant bird’s head, I want a man’s head if human heads were shaped like potatoes, but upside down, and sitting inside that, I want a man, but with a bird’s head, and maybe make it look like the bird-headed man is shooting a bird out of his hand, which should also be holding a torch. Throw a bunch of rainbow people in a birth control pillbox in the background — it’s very high concept. We’re going to have to skimp on printing costs because we went over budget persuading Heinlein and Asimov to appear together, so don’t break your neck painting detail. Now, what say we make this a five martini lunch?

Published 1970

(Average: 7.88 out of 10)

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Time to get out there and win the War on Christmas. With any luck it will be vanquished!

As we kick 2017 in the pants and say goodbye it is time again to stuff your stockings with some terrible cover GIFts you can’t return. Time to start my shopping and pink slip the elves who won’t be needed again until this time next year. I think the North Pole is above the Arctic Circle in some EU country so Brexit was going to give them the boot anyway.

Have a happy holiday and we’ll see you in a couple weeks with our Old Year Sum Up!

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And click here to read the back cover

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Good Show Sir Comments: A Holiday Play in Four Acts:

Act 1. Incoming sled and reindeer, missiles ready, prepare to intercept!

Act 2. Don we now our gay apparatus!

Act 3. Slay bells ring!

Act 4. Tonight we’re gonna party like it’s 1939!

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Good Show Sir Comments: WTF is he wearing?

Thanks to Ryan for sending this in!

Published 1991

(Average: 7.88 out of 10)

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Good Show Sir Comments: She just gave him a Paleo Diet Cookbook.

Published 1986

(Average: 7.88 out of 10)

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Happy New Year 2020! Hard to believe but Good Show Sir is entering its third decade of curating a panoply of terrible sci-fi and fantasy book covers. And a third decade of passersby mistaking terrible covers for bad covers. And speaking of milestones, in this past year we celebrated our 10th Anniversary and 2,000th Cover! We threw such a big party bash I totally blacked out and can’t remember anything. I’m sure you all had a great time.

2019 saw the launch of the Good Show Sir Podcast (“Another fucking podcast” raves Podcast Aficionado magazine!)

And in 2019 GSS underwent a massive expansion, increasing our staff by 50% with the addition of the lovely and talented Social Media Strategist Tweet Jane! Our Twitter and Facebook presence has been spruced up and there you can find bonus pithy comments and troll abuse not seen on our blog page.

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

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Thuvia, Maid of Mars

Our silver medal winner is the Piers Anthony centaur and pony show:

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Night Mare

And the bronze-medal winning:

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Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar

My personal favourite of 2019:

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Skeppsbruten på Tschai

Tag Wizard’s fancied this mess. “No guts, no glory” he screamed:

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Encores in Fade

And Tweet Jane just friended this role model. “Making her my avatar” she vowed:

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The Deathless Amazon

Now back to recovering from the concussion I received from a fan angry about my Black Peter costume. He obviously misunderstood I was dressed ironically. Go figure.
— GSS Admin

(Average: 7.88 out of 10)

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