Nov 16
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Alessandra’s Art Direction:It’s short fiction by some of the best, most respected science fiction authors in the field. So I want… A Viking with a bottom for a face! Riding the world’s most exhausted-looking dinosaur horse! With its tongue hanging out! Through a Dali-esque landscape out of the Old West! And give the Viking kind of … Samurai armor!
Published 1976

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Tagged with: Alfred Bester • beast-riding • Bob Fowke • dude • Eric Frank Russell • FaceBoob.com • Frederik Pohl • Fredric Brown • Good Show Sir • horns • Isaac Asimov • J.G. Ballard • J.T. McIntosh • Jack Finney • Kurt Vonnegut • mountains • Penguin Science Fiction • polymastia • strange creature • Theodore Sturgeon • Tom Boardman • waistcoat • wilderness • WTF
Nov 07
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MisterBOB’s Art Direction: One Word – Cat People… ok… so two words!But one cat alien wearing the latest outer space fashions!
Published 1990

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Tagged with: Ace Books • anthropomorphism • cat people • Dennis Schmidt • Good Show Sir • Jill Bauman • planets • space • The Questioner Trilogy
Oct 25

SteveAsat Comments: You know what robots really don’t need? Polio. For more than three decades I have wondered whether anything even remotely resembling this scene appears in the novel. But it’s Saberhagan, so the mere thought of flipping through the actual text induces naptime.
Published 1981

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Tagged with: Ace Books • Fred Saberhagen • Good Show Sir • gun • robots • Unknown Artist Institute • wheelchair • WTF
Sep 20
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Art Direction: Man in a thong sword fighting an octopus while two half naked babes watch. My only regret is that only the French people will see this glorious work of art. Maybe someday… someone… somewhere will show this to the masses so they might all say, “Good Show Sir. Good Show!”
Published 1985

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Tagged with: bladed weapons • cephalopod • cleavage • damsel • dude • Fleuve Noir Books • Good Show Sir • hunkbutt • loincloth • long haired men • Maurice Limat • monsters • mullet • muscles • strange creature • sword • tentacles • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF
Sep 12
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Phil’s Art Direction: Are you SURE Bradbury is sufficiently recognisable enough to appear on his own book covers? Well, jazz it up a bit; he looks a bit plain.
Published 2009

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Tagged with: author on the cover • books on the covers of books • evil book • explosion • font problems • Good Show Sir • monument • Ray Bradbury • suits you • Unknown Artist Institute • William Morrow Books • WTF
Aug 18
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Mary Comments: Accompanied by the long lost monkey cousin of Scuba Horse?
Published 1982
You might remember this from here.

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Tagged with: blood • bubble helmet • cross • flowers • Good Show Sir • jazz hands • Melvyn Grant • monkeys • mountains • neo-jesus • once you see it • Panther Books • Philip José Farmer • planets • space • strange creature • WTF
Jul 20
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Grady Comments: I’m disappointed, to be honest. The back of the book says, “They speak German. They carry whips. And they are connected in some mysterious way with Nazi experiments carried out in the charming old Irish castle during World War II.” Meh, I’ve seen more charming Irish castles.
Published 1968

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Tagged with: Avon Books • castle • damsel • dude • dwarf • evil • Good Show Sir • Hector Garrido • nazi • whip it good • WTF
Jul 04
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Art Direction: Hey remember that time I had too many of those strawberry “stickers.” It was hilarious, I was all like, ‘OH GWAD help me! I’m fading into another world!’ Lets just draw that, expect, miss out the parts with my genitals. Keep the moustache though…
Published 1980

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Tagged with: Adrian Chesterman • dude • geometric oddities • Good Show Sir • Isidore Haiblum • mighty moustache • Penguin Science Fiction • WTF
Jun 27
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Art Direction: The real question is, what can’t we put on the cover? I want everything, a dragon, a muscle bound man in tights, a wizard and even a dwarf. Oh and the standard 80’s teenager thrown into a world they don’t understand but slowly come to love. All emerging from a fine mist.
Published 1985

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Tagged with: ax-wielding • bladed weapons • damsel • dragon • Good Show Sir • Joel Rosenberg • magic • muscles • Nelson Doubleday SFBC • Steve Ferris • sword
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