This is a random selection of covers from old science fiction paperbacks. There's no particular logic or structure to these illustrations: it's just that - as everyone knows - SF books sometimes have the finest sleeves in the bookshop, sometimes the worst, and I thought I'd like to share some with you. So here's twenty-five that I plucked off my shelves.

Click here to start your tour, or on a thumbnail below to enlarge.

Oh, and if you like this kind of thing, there's a parallel gallery of horror anthologies as well.