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It’s a Two-fer Tuesday: Andre Norton Before & After

Good Show Sir Comments:

Before: “This mission is so popular the men are dying to get in!”

After: “Damn! I thought filling the cabins with hydrogen would reduce our take-off weight!”

Published 1954

(Average: 7.50 out of 10)

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Happy New Year 2019! We will remember 2018 for all the cameo appearances of actual professional artists, authors and editors in the comments! Surprisingly, they are not happy! Why would they mistake our lovely site for some sort of Museum of Bad Art? Just because our tagline is “Only the worst Sci-fi/Fantasy book covers”? First thing to do in the near year is to change that to “Only the wurst Sci-fi/Fantasy book covers” so they don’t misunderstand our intent. Not all though. Some get it.

We here at Good Show Sir Headquarters are looking forward to the new year and our gala 10th Anniversary bash scheduled at an undisclosed location sometime in March. Our special friends will have their invitations hand-delivered by a uniformed government agent sometime in the very near future.

As always, GSS After Dark Platinum Club Members can get their party invitations here.

On to the honours. Be aware that this post was prerecorded and if the order of the top three keep shifting, well, fuck it. I’ll just have to go in and delete some ratings.

First, the top rated cover of last year:

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Down in the Black Gang
Sexual innuendo. Always a crowd pleaser.

Our silver medal winner is the Jack Chalker Honourable Mention clusterfuck:

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Honourable Mentions 19

As Bruce A Munro aptly put it: Well, if anyone was uncertain that Jack Chalker was dead, this should serve as convincing evidence.

And the bronze medal winning:

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Carnacki the Ghost-Finder
pot-bellied dude and pot-bellied pig

My personal favourite cover of 2018:

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The Image of the Beast/Blown
Cover Blown. Mind Blown.

And Tag Wizard’s chosen favourite from the year:

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Chaos Mode
Es car go go

Peace out
— GSS Admin

(Average: 8.67 out of 10)

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Let’s sit back and enjoy some Xmas vinyl. And then toss them on the old yule log. We’ll have our Festivus “Airing of Grievances” after we return from the break. I got a lotta problems with you people, and you’re going to hear about it! Have a happy holiday and we’ll see you in a couple weeks with our Old Year Sum Up!

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Good Show Sir Comments:

1. Glad I traded the elves to the Jawas for some droids.

2. Deck … the halls … withBoughsofHolly?!!

3. Why I oughta … wish you a Merry Xmas. nyuk nyuk

… and a few Honourable Mentions:

4. Let’s start with the liver.

5. So that’s the original recipe turkey bucket. Eight pieces. 15 kilos. Pull up to the next window.

6. Three Maids a Layin’ … no Golden Rings!

(Average: 8.13 out of 10)

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JuanPaul Comments: The secret ingredient to Grandma’s gingerbread cookies will leave you feeling a little scorched.

Published 1983

(Average: 8.67 out of 10)

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Mrs Jones Comments: Princess Leia … After Dark!

Published 1978

(Average: 8.44 out of 10)

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Good Show Sir Comments: Haven’t we seen this couple before?

Published 1952

(Average: 8.67 out of 10)

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The Bookkeeper Comments: Orlando Bloom stars as Legolas Lestat in a new vampire/elf mash-up.

Published 1998

(Average: 8.80 out of 10)

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Bellatrix Comments: Hey Tag Wizard! Do you have a tag for a belly-dancing tornado?

I have “dancing up a storm”!  – T.W.

Published 1954

(Average: 7.86 out of 10)

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Marvin Comments: Caution! Do not stare at idol with remaining eye!

Published 1961

(Average: 8.17 out of 10)

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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.

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!]

#BeBest

(Average: 7.00 out of 10)

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