Jan 30
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Error establishing a database connection. Error establishing a database connection.
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Error establishing a database connection.
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Error establishing a database connection. Error establishing a database connection.
Error establishing a database connection. Error establishing a database connection.
Error establishing a database connection. Error establishing a database connection.
Error establishing a database connection. Error establishing a database connection.
Error establishing a database connection. Error establishing a database connection.
Error establishing a database connection.
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Error establishing a database connection. Error establishing a database connection.
Error establishing a database connection. Error establishing a database connection.
Error establishing a database connection. Error establishing a database connection.
Error establishing a database connection. Error establishing a database connection.
Error establishing a database connection. Error establishing a database connection.
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Error establishing a database connection!

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Jan 16
Twenty Twenty Two Blew. Twenty three skidoo!
Here at Good Show Sir we outdid ourselves in selfishly serving our customer base. Which remains nonexistent. Which is why we pioneered the introduction of random bank holidays not officially recognized by our stodgy government. A special tip of the hat to our field correspondent Ryan who apparently tours the ghost towns of the American Southwest where the last remaining paperback shoppes are preserved by the dry climate.
On to the honorees. The highest-rated cover of 2022, congrats to Max Bathroom, is:
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Max Bathroom Comments: Why you should never use a magic sword to shave your chest.
The Dancers of Arun
The Dancers of Arun
Tag Wizard shows off his twisted mind by favouring this clusterf*ck:
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Charles Art Direction: “Under no circumstance put a unicorn on the cover”.
Year of the Unicorn
Year of the Unicorn
While this doozy gave, yours truly, GSS Admin, bad flashbacks:
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Good Show Sir Comments: When Civilization ultimately battles for survival I am sure they will rely upon the KISS Army. Thanks to Ryan for sending this in!
The Texts of Festival
The Texts of Festival
Looking forward to big things happening here at Good Show Sir in 2023. Or maybe not. You get what you pay for!
— GSS Admin

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Jan 03
Twenty Twenty Two. Here for you!
As we continue with another chapter in our Journal of the Plague Year, we look back fondly at the only bright side of another dreary annus horribilis: our parade of terrible covers!
The highest-rated cover of 2021 is:
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Macht Stahlratte zum Präsidenten!
Macht Stahlratte zum Präsidenten!
Our silver medal winner:
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Le livre d’or: Robert Heinlein
Le livre d’or: Robert Heinlein
And the bronze medal winning:
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Time Storm
Time Storm
Tag Wizard channels his inner shaman with this howler:
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Fur Magic
Fur Magic
And my favourite cover for the classic feel-good novel:
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Now back to managing my Xinjiang Dogecoin mine. I leave you the task of retaining what’s left of your sanity in 2022. Feel free to tag your favourites in the comments below!
— GSS Admin

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Jan 11
Look the calendar. It’s 2021. I tried flipping the page to 2022 but that didn’t work. So instead of looking forward let’s look backward and reflect on our past glory.
On to the honours. Based on ratings, the recent “Swedish Megapost” is on top. But it is our judgement that it will need to stand the test of time longer than two weeks to claim top honours. Also some little prick in Paraguay has been screwing around with our stellar vote rating system. Somehow our election fraud complaints has drawn terrifying responses online. Therefore, the highest rated cover of 2020 is:
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Nebula Award Stories 1
Our silver medal winner:
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The Little Boy Who Could Talk to Bigfoot
And the bronze medal winning:
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Blood Autumn
My personal favourite cover of 2020:
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The Trouble With Heroes
Tag Wizard’s chosen favourite for the year:
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Runespear
And we were finally able to reach Tweet Jane, who has been away on a lengthy … let’s call it a sabbatical. My favourite cover is The Beasts of Tarzan. For no other reason than I feel just like the lion looks.
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The Beasts of Tarzan
Now back to checking on the status of my Singaporean citizenship application. I leave you in the trusted hands of Tag Wizard. Feel free to tag your favourites in the comments below!
— GSS Admin

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Jan 06
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

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Jan 07
Happy New Year 2019! We will remember 2018 for all the cameo appearances of actual professional artists, authors and editors in the comments! Surprisingly, they are not happy! Why would they mistake our lovely site for some sort of Museum of Bad Art? Just because our tagline is “Only the worst Sci-fi/Fantasy book covers”? First thing to do in the near year is to change that to “Only the wurst Sci-fi/Fantasy book covers” so they don’t misunderstand our intent. Not all though. Some get it.
We here at Good Show Sir Headquarters are looking forward to the new year and our gala 10th Anniversary bash scheduled at an undisclosed location sometime in March. Our special friends will have their invitations hand-delivered by a uniformed government agent sometime in the very near future.
As always, GSS After Dark Platinum Club Members can get their party invitations here.
On to the honours. Be aware that this post was prerecorded and if the order of the top three keep shifting, well, fuck it. I’ll just have to go in and delete some ratings.
First, the top rated cover of last year:
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Down in the Black Gang
Sexual innuendo. Always a crowd pleaser.
Our silver medal winner is the Jack Chalker Honourable Mention clusterfuck:
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Honourable Mentions 19
As Bruce A Munro aptly put it: Well, if anyone was uncertain that Jack Chalker was dead, this should serve as convincing evidence.
And the bronze medal winning:
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Carnacki the Ghost-Finder
pot-bellied dude and pot-bellied pig
My personal favourite cover of 2018:
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The Image of the Beast/Blown
Cover Blown. Mind Blown.
And Tag Wizard’s chosen favourite from the year:
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Chaos Mode
Es car go go
Peace out
— GSS Admin

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Jan 04
Happy Good Riddance 2017 and in with a New Year. This is the beginning of our ninth year here at Good Show Sir and it seems like barely nineteen years have flown by. And we have a whole 15 months to plan on something really special for our gala 10th anniversary. And a 10th anniversary means a special gift for all … let me look that one up … ah tin or aluminum! So next year we’ll celebrate with tins of spam and cans of Boddington’s for everyone at the gala event. Look for your invitation in the email spam folder.
On the plus side, we welcome some new friends to the madhouse, GSS ex-noob, Tor Mented, Raoul, Longtime_Lurker, and many, many, too many more to mention. Flashback Fridays have become a run-away hit (with the staff). But don’t think we’re sloughing off here because you get that extra cover back on Two-fer Tuesdays and we get to sneak out the door early on Liquid Lunch Thursdays to enjoy our three-day weekends. Our staff has also proposed we introduce Bank Holiday Mondays each week but we are still focus-grouping that idea.
On to the honours. First, the top rated cover of last year:
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… which seems like cheating since our demographic can’t seem to get enough of the Old Dick. Highest rated cover not a Blade book:
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We asked GSS Admin for his favourite and he shouted through the locked door “anything with tits on it”:
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And we asked Tag Wizard’s for his chosen favourite from the year and he said “Hot Stuff”:
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Jan 09
Tag Wizard here wishing you all a Happy New Year! 2016 was an awful year in general but very disruptive here at Good Show Sir. Because of financial losses caused by continued unfair competition by Chinese Good Show Sir, GSS Admin left for St. Petersburg in midsummer to be administrator for a Russian troll farm and fake news site. No cause for alarm, he hopes to get an exit visa and return any day now. After Brexit our entire staff of embittered and poorly paid Polish tag minions quit en masse, but not before pilfering all of our office supplies. And this was the year our iconic I Sing the Body Electric cover was continually knocked out of the Top Ten by flashy, trendy, more-recent covers. Fortunately it is back in the favourites, no doubt thanks to GSS Admin’s troll army. Hopefully 2017 will be a much better year. It can’t be any worse than 2016!
On to the honours. First, the top rated cover of last year:
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Before he left, GSS Admin said this was his chosen favourite:
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And my chosen favourite from the year:
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Jan 05
Sorry about the delay in posting! I would like to say the New Year was full of alchomohol but unfortunately it was full of coldy flu-y illness!
It’s been a crazy year, full of server crashes, fighting with corrupt databases, resurrections and return to nearly former glory! Just want to say thanks to all who have stuck around and I still love laughing daily at all your comments!
Also just want to thank the Tag Wizard who has been a huge help to me this year! May it continue on over 2016! Happy New Year!!
First, the top rated cover of last year:
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The Tag Wizards Chosen favourite:
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And my chosen favourite from the year:
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Jan 01
Yes another year has passed and we have been through a lot. There’s been a overall disappointing 1000th Good Show Sir post, and a few cat people… oh and some real world stuff but who cares about that! I am of course kidding about our special 1000th post, it was excellent, well thought through and certainly wasn’t rushed. I do want to say a special thanks to the Tag Wizard, he’s been a real help over the past year! His skills are excellent and highly sought after so please continue to suggest your own tags to give him more work!
Once again no one has topped the ever strong I Sing the Body Electric, even with Chinese Good Show Sir making web imps to screw around with our delicate voting system.
2014 brings our 5 year anniversary and hopefully we’ll have something fun and actually well thought through! No promises though!
So here are some excellent covers to sum up the year! We’ll be back on Monday 6th Jan 2014 posting as normal, so that’s whenever we can be bothered!
This years top rated cover:
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The second top rated cover:
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The Tag Wizard’s pick of the year:
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And the cover that of spawned the infamous, “The Comments that Came to Sarnath,” incident!
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