I do a lot of posts focusing on speculative fiction book covers.  Some look at the good, but a lot of the time I’m poking fun at the weird, the strange, the bizarre from my favorite reading genre.  Too often I seem to be picking on the covers from decades past when the artistic style was much different from today. And that isn’t very fair of me, because a lot of those old covers were damn good, great even.

Today, I will seek to remedy my idiotic oversight and make amends for my former slight by taking a look at some of the most memorable speculative fiction covers of the past: the DAW SF Book line, where beautiful covers were almost always on display.

Let us start with a series of covers for a favorite author of mine: Michael Moorcock!

Now, let us take a look at some of the…