Good Show Sir

Aug 16

Charles Comments “Do you like the underwater nursing home I found for you, Dad? When can I visit? … ooh the call must be breaking up … all that water you know ….”

Published 1960

(Average: 8.20 out of 10)

Tagged with: Ace Books • dude • Ed Emshwiller • floating head • glow • Gordon R. Dickson • old man take a look at my life • shark • Ting! • underwater

Aug 13

The Presence

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Adam and Eve. Eatin' shrooms. Good times. Click for larger image

Dionysius Rogers Art Direction: Don’t we have some rejected cover art for that last printing of Stranger in a Strange Land? Where there’s a burning, lightning-struck monster in the middle of it for some reason?

Published 1977

(Average: 8.67 out of 10)

Tagged with: damsel • Don Ivan Punchatz • dude • Earth • Fawcett Books • fire • fungi • lightning • Rodger Clemens • spectacular space chart • starkers • strange creature • tree • underwater

Feb 19

Greek Mega Post

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Bibliomancer went to Greece and GSS didn’t even get a lousy tau-shirt. But we did get a bunch of terrible Greek book covers. I’ll turn this post (and week) over to him:

I come from Greece bearing gifts! So don’t look a Trojan Horse in the mouth. Athens has a big chain store called “Public” which is a combination of Barnes & Noble and Best Buy with a whole large floor of new books in Greek and English. Athens also have a few “charming” used book stores in some of the older neighborhoods. Here’s the inside view of one of them:

So here are some terrible covers, Greek-style. Sorry, but we will have to skip the authors, cover artists and publication dates. Be kind to Tag Wizard:

Do surfers dream of aquatic sheep? Click for larger image