Feb 16
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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
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Tagged with: A.E. van Vogt • Ace Books • anthropomorphism • baldy bad man • cat people • cheetah people • fox people • gun • hippo people • John Schoenherr • space ships • WTF
Feb 10
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Rachel J’s Art Direction: Mark, *nothing* happens in this yawn-fest, so let’s go with the general girl-power-in-space-with-crystals theme from the earlier books. Pink-and-purple colour scheme, huge embossed title in neon yellow, rocketships, chick in the foreground holding up a sparkly rainbow crystal. Oh, and make her look awed. What? No, I said “awed”, not “bored!” But hey, “bored” works too.
Published 1993
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Tagged with: Anne McCaffrey • Corgi Books • crystal • damsel • glow • magic • Mark Harrison • space ships • WTF
Jan 17
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Kevin Comments: After centuries of being subjected to ridiculous Christmas and Halloween outfits, the feline race finally gets it revenge….in space.
Published 1979
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Tagged with: Ace Books • anthropomorphism • cat people • dude • frickin laser beams • handguns • Michael Whelan • Poul Anderson • space • space ships
Jan 09
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Frank Comments: Helmets for men only because we wouldn’t want to mess up the lady officers’ hair. And if we’re seeing the forward view, I hope they’re looking at the rear view mirror.
Published 1980
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Tagged with: Ace Books • damsel • dude • Ken Barr • planets • space • space ships • space suit
Jan 04
Happy New Year!
Well another year is here, I am just about over my hang over and of course back in work! So it’s time to start again and see what exciting covers we can find to brighten our days. Last year didn’t see a cover which had the power to beat, I Sing the Body Electric. But maybe this year… maybe…
Thanks to everyone who has sent in covers and comments! You all bring such entertainment to our lives. And of course thank you to all those amazing publishers, without you and your art direction where would Good Show Sir be?
Last year was very exciting now that I think about it. And my quest for terrible Sci-Fi/fantasy book covers also led to the best conversation ever in a second hand book store.
Shop Assistant: Wow.. that cover is so bad!!!
Me: Yeah isn’t it? That’s kinda why I am buying it actually.
Shop Assistant: Really? Awesome. You should start some sort of website to show covers like these.
Me: I have…
Shop Assistant: ……
And nothing more was said. Here is the book I bought.
The top rated cover of the year:
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A Personal Favourite:
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CSA Chooses dragon crotch!
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And of course, how could we not mention the cover that started a censoring legend:
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Tagged with: Arrow Books • cleavage • damsel • dragon • dude • Good Show Sir • lizards • magic • Old Year Sum Up • Penguin Science Fiction • Pocket Books • space • space sheep • space ships • strange creature • Tower books • wolf • WTF
Dec 21
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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Tagged with: aliens • Arthur C. Clarke • cleavage • computers • damsel • dude • font problems • frickin laser beams • Good Show Sir • gun • Mark Willson • MEGA POST • monsters • muscles • planets • robots • shoulder pads • space • space ships • space suit • Steven Nicholas Moses • strange artifact • strange creature • Unknown Artist Institute • Ursula K. Le Guin • William Gibson • WTF
Dec 16
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ash966 Comments: If your artist is unable to create and illusion of 3 dimensions (the nose and the spaceships), should you really emphasize the fact with a 3-D font? The spaceships look like children’s toys and the font looks like something and 8th-grader doodles in her notebook. Also, what is a “ram song”? I don’t think I want to know.
Published 1984
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Tagged with: Argo Books • dude • font problems • Neil Feigeles • once you see it • planets • Sharon Webb • space • space ships
Dec 06
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Tom Noir Comments: This author has a whole series of covers involving people making out above spaceships. Jokes about her “wormhole” are left as an exercise for the reader.
Published 2008
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Tagged with: Bantam Books • damsel • dude • frickin laser beams • Linnea Sinclair • space • space ships • Stephen Youll
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