Dec 07
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JuanPaul Art Direction: What we’re looking for is a cover that seems to question the reader’s worthiness to buy this book. It should almost say, “Kid, what are doing here? Look at us: Cat Men in spacesuits with our own f-ing spaceship. Do you REALLY think you can handle this?”
Published 1990

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Tagged with: Baen Books • cat people • embossing • font problems • Jerry Pournelle • Larry Niven • Man-Kzin Wars • Poul Anderson • S.M. Stirling • space ship • spiffy uniform • Steve Hickman
Dec 11
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Good Show Sir Comments: Breaking News from Baen Books! Our esteemed colleagues at Baen have released an Advanced e-Reader’s Copy of the latest installment in the wildly popular Man-Kzin Wars series and we’d like to be one of the first to give them all the free publicity they can stand.
Lately we have been made to realize that some of us at Good Show Sir have been a bit harsh on the Baen enterprise (looking at you, ex-Noob 😄 ). Some Baen honchos believe we go too far in featuring so many splendid and, I must admit, VERY COMPETENT WORKS OF ART done by their artist minions on a weblog with the temerity to feature the byline “Only the worst Sci-fi/Fantasy book covers”. C’mon guys, you know that by “terrible” we mean “awesome”. Get on fleek with how the kids are slangin’ these days.
We give a tip-of-the-bowler-hat to today’s featured cover artist Steve Hickman. What can we say but IT IS GOOD ART. Not some Unknown Artist Institute™ knock-off. In fact, one might expect to see this hanging in some tony Soho art gallery, except that, you know, it’s a cat-person portrait and all that. But the talent is there for all to see. He looks so real you can almost smell him!
So anyway people, check out Man-Kzin Wars XV! That’s number XV! If they are numbering them like Super Bowls you know they got to be good. Buy more Baen Books! Our future here at GSS depends on far-sighted publishers like Baen keepin’ the faith.
–GSS Admin
[P.S. to our friends at Baen. Don’t feel that sending us free swag like new books and single-malt whiskey is a violation of our Code of Ethics!]
#BeBest

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Tagged with: Baen Books • Brad R. Torgersen • Brendan Dubois • cat people • font problems • Hal Colebach • It's Howling Time! • Jason Fregeau • Jessica Q. Fox • Larry Niven • Man-Kzin Wars • Martin L. Shoemaker • Steve Hickman • throne
Oct 18
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Good Show Sir Comments:
There once was a damsel named Janet
Who came from a world called Big Planet
The gravity well
Caused her boobies to swell
But the Space Sheep is here so don’t ban it
Published 1978
Thanks to Kathy C. for sending this in.

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Tagged with: big hair • damsel • devil's dumplings • font problems • Jack Vance • jugs • moons • necklace • planets • river • space sheep • Steve Hickman • Underwood-Miller Books
Jan 14
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MisterBob Comments: OK, a tower from earth goes all the way to the stars, but the spaceman doing the fonts has fallen off the top.
Published 1988

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Tagged with: Baen Books • damsel • dude • font problems • Phillip C. Jennings • space ships • space suit • Steve Hickman
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