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Phil’s Art Direction: Look, no one will guess that this book is about futuristic police, unless you paint POLICE onto the side of that hovership. While you’re at it, give that policeman an unusually large face. I hear that’s how policemen will look centuries hence.
Published 1976

(Average: 5.79 out of 10)

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Collette’s Art Direction: I envision floating elderly embryos, spaceships, and armed jungle animals before a crimson sky! Hmm… maybe we should put that in a small box on the cover, because now that I say it out loud, it sounds kind of crazy.
Published 1971

(Average: 8.82 out of 10)

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Mangraa’s Art Direction: We need a different cover for the Vor Game! Do that, “soldier being led to jail”, scene we talked about. Only make the prisoner a clone… no, a SMALLER VERSION clone of the Captain! Genius! And make sure the Captain smells what mini-clone did while crossing the Captain’s path. Irresistible!
Published 1990

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(Average: 6.89 out of 10)

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MisterBOB Comments: In Space Jam Jars are Rather Useful…
Published 1980

(Average: 5.80 out of 10)

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Corey Comments: A naked woman on fire. Thanks Orson Scott Card.
Published 1979

(Average: 8.00 out of 10)

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Well it has come to that time of year again when we at Good Show Sir need to take a break to steal Christmas presents from children, eat an insane amount of other peoples food and of course, get stinking drunk and rant about book covers!

Not to worry though, we’ll be back first thing in the new year with a round up of the best of 2011’s covers!

Here we have some fantastic Hungarian covers sent in by Gabor and River, about 9 months ago! I appologise for keeping them hidden for so long but here they are, all six of them!

Have a great holiday! And again thanks to everyone who visits the site and all the specials ones who leave comments which brighten our days with witty banter!

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(Average: 7.96 out of 10)

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Adam’s Art Direction: I said make the eyes BIGGER! They need to look like he’s got a magnifying glass in front of his face at all times!
Published 1988

(Average: 7.38 out of 10)

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Art Direction: Lets just get Jim from accounting, he works out right? We’ll put him in my air-soft kit and spice it up a little. People who read books love that type of stuff. It will be just like a TV show, but on a book.
Published 2011

(Average: 4.78 out of 10)

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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

(Average: 6.44 out of 10)

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Man of the Mountains Comments: So, we talk about mystery, mystery reader buy lots of paperbacks. How do we get the science fantasy people — what are the names of some of the popular magazines?
Published 1950

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(Average: 5.61 out of 10)

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