I’m not a heavy metal fan (closest I got was my teenage obsession with Nightwish), so I didn’t at first realize the significance of this Bruce Pennington art I posted to my Instagram yesterday.
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It was originally used as a 1971 cover to Space, Time and Nathaniel by Brian Aldiss, and has since appeared on three other book covers, two magazine covers, and t…