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Randall Frost Art Direction “I want you to really sell the sea serpent’s scales! I mean really make a gorgeous stained glass mosaic of it! Don’t waste time on the faces. Just make a couple of commas, and BOOM you got yourself a face!”

Published 1982

(Average: 7.45 out of 10)

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Ryan Comments: I am torn between the best feature on this cover – the little cat-man or the wizard’s shoes.

Published 1987

(Average: 4.76 out of 10)

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Good Show Sir Comments: Let’s play guess the Heinlein title; wrong answers only. I’m thinking “The Centaur is a Harsh Mistress”.

Published 1973

(Average: 6.79 out of 10)

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Bibliomancer Comments: It’s “The OtherWorld” not “The Other World”. Baen doesn’t have time for your punctuation bullshit.

Published 2000

(Average: 7.00 out of 10)

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Good Show Sir Comments: When Voiha Wakes … he’ll be missing a kidney.

Published 1983

(Average: 7.38 out of 10)

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Dr Bob Comments: I’m pretty sure her horse is a statue.

Published 1988

(Average: 6.10 out of 10)

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Knuckle Girls

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Good Show Sir Comments: GSS Superfan Reggie M. (who prefers to keep a low profile) sent in these fine examples of literature printed by the New English Library back in the 70s. We here at GSS are familiar with the terrible sci-fi cover art overachievers at N.E.L. See here.

But N.E.L. is also know among paperback aficiandos for their sleazy girl covers. These here show the exciting lifestyle choices of a comely English lass who starts out as a fist-fighting brawler, graduates to shiv-lady in her local gang, then a Patty Hearst terrorist clone, before moving into a steady day job in the publishing business as a naked copy editor.

I am sure these attractive young misses are all quite proper British grannies now and remember fondly their previous modeling careers. So let’s reward them all with a Good Show Sir Honourable Mention.

Published 1970s

(Average: 4.71 out of 10)

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Princess Polly Comments: OK, this Tinder date has gone horribly wrong. Please call me an Uber.

Published 1993

(Average: 7.38 out of 10)

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Tag Wizard Comments: I warned you. They only get worse.

(Average: 7.75 out of 10)

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Mr Peepers Comments: Bloody awful.

Published 1959

(Average: 7.73 out of 10)

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