Feb 11
This covers have all been sent in by River and I thought they might all make an excellent mega post. Thanks very much to River who has also provided some information about each!
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Contains 100 short stories by Hungarian authors.
Published 2003
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This third hardcover reissue contains two novels written by a Hungarian author under English pseudonym. Writing fantasy and science fiction stories under English pen names was very popular in the 90s. And many readers really thought that these writers are from abroad.
Published 1999
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Translating the Hungarian title to English was also a strange tradition in these books just like the English pen names for Hungarian writers. You can read inside that, A szellemlt, means, The Spiritseer. Hardcover.
Published 2005
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j Galaxis is a science fiction magazine published twice a year in Hungary. Guess which years product is this one. 1988? You slipped twenty years. This issue is only three years old.
Published 2008
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Tagged with: bladed weapons • cloaks • daemons • dragon • dude • evil • font problems • magic • MEGA POST • monsters • muscles • robots • sword • Unknown Artist Institute • unknown publisher • vampire • vampires • Wizaaaaaaaard!
Feb 07
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MisterBOB’s Art Direction: A picture of little girl floating above a jewel and ocean, always sells the book! Trust me – I did media studies!
Published 1995
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Tagged with: Avonova Books • David Lee Jones • evil children • floating person • font problems • magic • Unknown Artist Institute
Jan 28
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Art Direction: Screw this! It’s a light hearted novel about a space dentist. Lets just give them exactly that. I mean, what could go wrong?
Published 1974
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Tagged with: call 555-orthodontic-emergency • dude • monster • Piers Anthony • space • space ship • space suit • Sphere Books • Unknown Artist Institute
Jan 25
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Richard’s Art Direction:
“The hardback didn’t sell well, so we shortened the title, make it more time-travel-y. Can you give us something that evokes “time-loop” for the cover?”
“Hmm, what about a glaiket looking bloke and a sheep?”
“Bam!”
Published 1979
Wow.. many thanks to Richard!
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Tagged with: Arrow Books • D.G. Compton • Dave Bergen • dude • floating face • Good Show Sir • planets • space • space sheep • space ships • strange creature • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF
Jan 24
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Matt’s Art Direction: I don’t care what’s on the cover. Just make it difficult to look at. I want a cover so jarring to the senses that you can barely read the title.
Published 1988
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Tagged with: Ace Books • dude • font problems • shoulder pads • Simon Hawke • snake • strange creature • sunglasses • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF
Jan 14
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Art Direction: Nothing attracts readers more than nipples! It’s a proven trend that equals one thing, money! That is unless you draw huge nipples, a huge red women with an insane sparkling mouth wearing sunglasses and a guy running from a giant pinball. Hey! Are you listening?
Published 1978
I give this a Zippy and George!
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Tagged with: cleavage • evil • Michael Butterworth • Michael Moorcock • Star Books • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF
Jan 11
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Danielle Comments: For dry, red eyes…
Published Date Unknown
Turns out this book might be apocalyptic Christian literature by E G White.
We appologise, but the cover is still pretty epic!
Thanks to Phil for helping locate info!
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Tagged with: evil • explosions • metropolitan apocalypse • once you see it • planets • sky-eyes • Unknown Artist Institute • unknown author • unknown publisher • WTF
Jan 10
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John Comments: “Hey, all the hot water’s gone!”
Published 1978
Many thanks to John!
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Tagged with: dude • font problems • M. Matzkin • Manor Books • muscles • space • Unknown Artist Institute
Jan 07
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David Comments: That’s a LOINCLOTH hanging between his legs.
Published 1981
Many thanks to David!
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Tagged with: bladed weapons • dude • Granada Books • loincloth • magical weapon • monsters • muscles • spear • Tim Powers • Unknown Artist Institute
Jan 03
Happy New Year!
Well it’s 2011 and that means we have an entire year of quality book covers behind us. So here we will have a few of the best covers chosen by the Good Show Sir staff, helper monkeys or whatever.
Just want to say thanks to everyone who visits the site! I would have never have thought so many people would be interesting in joining us sharing these wonderful covers. Thanks to all the commenter’s out there, where would we be without your generous sarcastic undertones? Also want to say thanks to all the artists and writers we’ve had come along to the site, we love all these covers but sorry if we’ve caused any tears!
Finally, special thanks to the all those who have sent in and continue to email me covers! I apologise that I haven’t got back to everyone who has sent covers in and I do have quite the backlog but we’ll get through them all.. probably!
How could we not mention:
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A personal favourite:
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Everyone loves cat people!
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CSA chooses magic, wizards, unicorns and fairies:
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Finally, well… maybe we should come back later:
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Tagged with: Ace Books • anthropomorphism • Avonova Books • bladed weapons • Boris Vallejo • cat people • Corgi Books • Cynthia Felice • Daniel Horne • dude • E.T. Steadman • horses • Jack L. Chalker • loincloth • magic • magical orbs • magical weapon • muscles • Nebular • Old Year Sum Up • Orbit Books • Pocket Books • Ray Bradbury • recursive cover • space ships • Stephen R. Lawhead • strange creature • teleport • Unicorns! • Unknown Artist Institute • Will Shetterly • Wizaaaaaaaard! • WTF
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