May 20
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Tat Wood Comments: The font setting on her Kindle was too large.
Published 1982

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Tagged with: A Del Rey Book • Anne McCaffrey • crystal • cybernetics • damsel • mega limbs • Michael Whelan • strange artifact
Jul 16
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Good Show Sir’s Art Direction: Look all I want is a bald man with a robot heart… a comical cartoon heart! Cause that’s just what crazy futuristic electronic LSD taking engineers would do. The back? People put stuff on the back of these things? Standard woman… and we’re done!
Published 1979

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Tagged with: Adrian Chesterman • baldness • cybernetics • cyborg • damsel • dude • living tissue over metal endoskeleton • muscles • Penguin Science Fiction • robots • Sheila Macleod • shiny oh so shiny • weird pecs
Mar 25
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Phil’s Art Direction: Who’s a cute little Harlie? Now, keep still for the cover artist, there’s a good little cyborg. When you grow up, you’ll be a famous writer and have your face on your own book!
Published 1975

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Tagged with: baldness • Ballantine Books • computers • cybernetics • cyborg • David Gerrold • evil children • font problems • half a face • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF
Mar 05
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Bibliomancer Comments: Face off between the Man with the X-ray eyes and the Invisible Woman, I like what I DON’T see!
Published 1964

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Tagged with: Ace Books • baldy bad man • cape • cybernetics • damsel • dude • Ed Emshwiller • half a face • living tissue over metal endoskeleton • robots • Samuel R. Delany • Ting!
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
Mar 28
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Tom Noir Comments: Naked cybernetic armed cat woman in an improbable pose bursting through a cover of shiny 3D fonts? This is what happens when cover designers play Bingo. This cover is SO shiny that the camera couldn’t quite deal with it. Pretty much everything that looks black is actually highly-reflective chrome.
Published 1998

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Tagged with: anthropomorphism • Baen Books • cat people • cybernetics • devil's dumplings • font problems • Good Show Sir • Greg Bear • gun • handguns • Jerry Pournelle • Larry Niven • Man-Kzin Wars • once you see it • S.M. Stirling • shiny oh so shiny • space sheep • Stephen Hickman • WTF
Jul 06
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The Portuguese version of Man Plus. Many thanks to Luis for sending this in!
Published 1976 (maybe)

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Tagged with: cybernetics • dude • Europa-America Books • font problems • Frederik Pohl • glow • muscles • robots • Unknown Artist Institute
Apr 04
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Craig M Comments: Thank god this catman is heavily equipped with bionic hand and sword to defend this nearly empty plaza. Combat tip, make him try to run with that scabbard hanging there.
Published 1988
Well.. we did promised more kats!

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Tagged with: alien city • anthropomorphism • bladed weapons • cat people • cybernetics • loincloth • muscles • P.J. Beese • Pageant Books • space ships • sword • Thomas Kidd • Todd Cameron Hamilton
Aug 21
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Hey guys, well I have the chips, beers, d20’s, cigars ….. and so I told them for the cover just put a large cybernetic cat man pondering meanly into the distance whilst standing in the midst of an exploded wasteland. *coughs* Why are you looking at me like that? …. Oh right, I forgot the dip!

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Tagged with: anthropomorphism • Baen Books • cat people • crotch armor • cybernetics • fire • Good Show Sir • gun • Hal Colebatch • It's Howling Time! • Larry Niven • Man-Kzin Wars • orange number nine • Paul Chafe • Poul Anderson • Stephen Hickman
Aug 12
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We’ve both been talking this over and really there is one thing we need on our cover. A horrific font! Have it big, bold, blocky and have the ‘fought’ look like someone has tried to adjust the colour balance in photoshop and then forgot about it. For the rest, just have some women crawling out of the air vent shooting an android. But seriously, who cares about the artwork these days.

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Tagged with: Anne McCaffrey • Baen Books • Brainship series • cybernetics • font problems • glow • gun • Haircut 100 • once you see it • S.M. Stirling • space ships • Stephen Hickman
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