Ryan Art Direction: “Yeah, it’s another Van Vogt. Let’s see, paint up a haggard floozy, Evil Blue Buddha, and the guy from the cover of the first Enigma album. Also make sure none of the furniture has any visible means of support.”
Published 1979
Max Bathroom Comments: Bad things happen when BRIAN BLESSED’s hat is so stylish it drives him mad.
Published 1990
Good Show Sir Comments Why is this cover giving me deja vu? And a free GSS Prime subscription to whoever can figure out the title.
Published 1979
Ryan Comments All I know is that this cover does not just draw the Eyes of Heisenberg, but every young red-blooded American boy’s eyes.
You might remember this from here.
Published 1979
Bellatrix Comments: “Do you have to interrupt us now? Do your hoovering later.”
You might remember this from here
Published 1985
Good Show Sir Comments: Cordwainer Smith’s little know Planet of the Apes/Gor mashup.
Thanks to Armando or sending this in!
Published 1989
JuanPaul Comments: “I wonder if that’s true: the king goes down with the planet…”
Published 1987
Wendy Comments: I think the faux-chinese font really makes this special.
Published 1978
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.
THE POPULAR MAN-KZIN WARS SERIES ROARS BACK INTO ACTION! New stories of the war between humanity and the catlike Kzin from Brad R. Torgersen, Brendan DuBois, Martin L. Shoemaker, and more!
Get the EARC today! #ebook #amreadinghttps://t.co/mD1hPO5KXp
— Baen Books (@BaenBooks) December 10, 2018
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!]
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