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Good Show Sir Comments: Sturgeon’s Law: Ninety percent of sci-fi book covers are … Good Show Sir!

To encourage social distancing we recommend that our GSS friends read a copy of this one on the Tube. Guaranteed no one will come within 2 metres.

Researchers have discovered the first malware which can be transmitted from computers to humans. Symptoms include hallucinations and a complete loss of artistic taste. Scientists are calling this the “cornavirus”.

You might remember this from here.

Published 1970

(Average: 8.50 out of 10)

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Jonathan Art Direction: The Styx? OK, we need a boat. Give the boat eyes. No, give it two sets of eyes. And some empty eye sockets. And bat wings and a frog. And a hand coming out of a skull holding a rubber spider. Oh, don’t forget the boatman needs to have the author’s face.

Published 1984

(Average: 6.40 out of 10)

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Rick Deckard Comments: His next assignment. Painting himself a pair of trousers.

Published 1956

(Average: 8.80 out of 10)

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Wendy Comments: ♫”The Roof! The Roof! The Roof is on Fire!”♫

Published 1979

(Average: 7.60 out of 10)

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Lillie Awesome Art Direction: Give me a little man, with a giant bird grafted to his head, and out of the giant bird’s head, I want a man’s head if human heads were shaped like potatoes, but upside down, and sitting inside that, I want a man, but with a bird’s head, and maybe make it look like the bird-headed man is shooting a bird out of his hand, which should also be holding a torch. Throw a bunch of rainbow people in a birth control pillbox in the background — it’s very high concept. We’re going to have to skimp on printing costs because we went over budget persuading Heinlein and Asimov to appear together, so don’t break your neck painting detail. Now, what say we make this a five martini lunch?

Published 1970

(Average: 8.82 out of 10)

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Good Show Sir Comments: “I gotta stop drinking on Ambien.”

Published 1970

Thanks to Sérgio for sending this in!

(Average: 8.00 out of 10)

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Perry Armstrong Comments: The Skydiver pilot quickly realised the folly of ejecting underwater.

You might remember this from here.

Published 1977

(Average: 5.08 out of 10)

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Billy Awesome’s Art Direction: Give me an Art-Deco Jesus in suspended animation between two vanishing perspective strips of candy dots, being menaced by a space knight.
Published 1974

(Average: 6.71 out of 10)

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Billy Awesome Comments: Pull out all the stops.  I want the head of Sturgeon as a devil, floating on an asteroid made partially of humanoid hands and torsos, and partially of a futuristic city that looks like a garbage truck, his hair a naked lady with a peacock feather magic aura, his brow haloed by dollar store xmas tinsel.  I want a topless mermaid riding a unicorn over a chain that secures nothing.  I want an astronaut trying to take a smoke break through his bubble helmet, and a nude baby on a floating cockle shell awestruck by the majesty of it all.  Don’t let me down.  Let’s make some magic!
Published 1964

(Average: 9.07 out of 10)

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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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(Average: 8.42 out of 10)

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