Bruce Pennington (born 10 May 1944, in Somerset, England) is a British painter, best known for his science fiction and fantasy novel cover art. Pennington’s works have largely featured on the covers of novels of Isaac Asimov, Clark Ashton Smith and Robert A. Heinlein, adopting both science fiction and fantastical themes. His past of speculation and youthful wonderment lead to his current outlandish form and style.
Pennington’s works are largely characterised by bold, daring colours; rich pinks and blues sustaining his continuing motifs of speculation as well as precise brush strokes, harmonious pigment blending as well as the acute concentration in the detail of his depicted subjects, usually landscapes of other times or worlds.
Pennington attended the Ravensbourne School of Art in Bromley during the early 1960s. He began working as a freelance illustrator in 1967.In 1976, Paper Tiger Books published an LP-sized graphic album, Eschatus, featuring Pennington’s paintings inspired by the prophecies of Nostradamus. They followed this, in 1991, with a graphic album, Ultraterranium, collecting various private and commercial works.
Bruce Pennington, The Underpeople by Cordwainer Smith, Sphere Books (UK), 1975.Bruce PenningtonBruce Pennington, The Godmakers by Frank Herbert, NEL, 1978.Bruce Pennington, A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs, New English Library 1969.Bruce Pennington, Glory Road by Robert A. Heinlein, New English Library 1968.Bruce Pennington, Lost Worlds (front of a wraparound cover) by Clark Ashton Smith, 1994 Paper Tiger / Dragon’s World.Bruce Pennington, A Time of Changes by Robert Silverberg, Panther Books 1975.Bruce Pennington, The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories, Arrow, 1981.Bruce Pennington, The Horror Horn by E.F. Benson, 1973.Bruce Pennington, Forest Temple, private work 1985.Bruce Pennington, The Technicolor Time Machine by Harry Harrison, 1970.Bruce Pennington, Impossible Possibilities by Pauwels and Bergier, Mayflower Books 1975.Bruce Pennington, The Master Mind of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs, NEL, 1973.Bruce Pennington, The Heaven Makers by Frank Herbert, NEL 1974.Bruce Pennington, Quest for the Future by A.E. van Vogt, NEL 1972.Bruce Pennington, Riverworld by Philip Jose Farmer, Granada Books 1980.Bruce Pennington, A Sense of Wonder (anthology) by John Wyndham, Jack Williamson, and Murray Leinster, NEL 1974.Bruce Pennington, Children of Tomorrow by A.E. van Vogt, NEL 1972.Bruce Pennington, The Sunset Warrior by Eric van Lustbader 1980.Bruce Pennington, The Green Brain by Frank Herbert, NEL 1971.Bruce Pennington, The World of Null A by A.E.Van Vogt, Sphere SF, 1974.Bruce Pennington, The Pawns of Null A by A.E. van Vogt, Sphere Books 1976, art 1973. The 1974 edition has darker colors.Bruce Pennington, The Master Mind of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs, NEL 1973.Bruce Pennington, The Stone God Awakens by Philip Jose Farmer, Panther Books 1976.Bruce Pennington, back cover of Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert 1972.Surrealism and Visionary art: Bruce PenningtonBruce Pennington, The Abominations of Yondo by Clark Ashton Smith, Panther Books 1974.Bruce Pennington, The Trail of Cthulhu by August Derleth 1974, a collection of 5 Cthulhu Mythos stories and an essay on the mythos.Bruce Pennington, The Claw of the Conciliator, Arrow Books 1980.Bruce Pennington, The Year’s Best Science Fiction, No.6, Sphere Books, 1973. Re-used for the Dutch version of Now Wait for Last Year by Philip K. Dick, Meulen Books, 1976.Bruce Pennington, Songmaster by Orson Scott Card, Arrow Books, 1980.Bruce Pennington, Helm Of The Cruciatis, private work, 1983.Bruce Pennington, Fungus Gigantica, private work 1990.Bruce Pennington, Flashing Swords! Vol. II edited by Lin Carter, Granada Books 1974.Bruce Pennington, The World of Null-A by A. E. Van Vogt. Sphere 1976.Bruce Pennington, The Canopy of Time by Brian Aldiss, 1971.Bruce Pennington, The Man in the Maze by Robert Silverberg, 1982.Bruce Pennington, Fungus Gigantica, private work 1990.Bruce Pennington, Space, Time, and Nathaniel by Brian Aldiss, NEL 1970.Bruce Pennington, Nordius, private work 1985.Bruce Pennington, Laghima, private work 1986.Bruce Pennington, Shallows of Night by Eric van Lustbader,Star Books 1980.Bruce Pennington, Twilight, Panther books 1974, Ultraterranium p.49.Bruce Pennington, The Stone God Awakens by Philip Jose Farmer, Panther Books 1976.Bruce Pennington, The Black Druid by Frank Belknap Long, Panther 1975.Bruce PenningtonBruce Pennington, header for an Ultraterranium ad.Bruce Pennington, Equator by Brian Aldiss, New English Library 1972, Re-used for The Voyage of the Space Beagle by A.E. van Vogt 1976.Bruce Pennington, Third Asimov Double, New English Library 1973. Re-used for The Marshes of Titan from the book The Flights of Icarus (1977) by Donald Lehmkuhl with Martyn and Roger DeanBruce Pennington, Myrmidons, private work 1985.Bruce Pennington, Indoctrinaire by Christopher Priest, NEL 1971.Bruce Pennington, Anguinous Trophy, private work 1981.Bruce Pennington, The Enigmatic Harbor, private work 1985.Bruce Pennington, Cults of Unreason by Dr. Christopher Evans, Panther Books 1974.Bruce Pennington, Shiva-shakti, private work 1986.Bruce Pennington Ω The Dune Encyclopedia, 1984Bruce Pennington, Laura’s New Cadillac 1983.bruce pennington – 70sscifiartBruce PenningtonBruce Pennington, Myrmidons, private work 1985.Bruce Pennington, Beyond This Horizon by Robert A. Heinlein, Panther Books 1973.Bruce Pennington, Bug-Eyed Monsters edited by Anthony Cheetham 1974.Bruce Pennington, A Sense of Wonder (anthology) by John Wyndham, Jack Williamson, and Murray Leinster, NEL 1974.Bruce Pennington, Time and Timothy Grenville by Terry Greenhough, NEL, 1976.Bruce Pennington, The Pastel City by M. John Harrison, NEL, 1971The artist is Ray Feibush, not Bruce Pennington, as confirmed by the credits of the magazine in which it first appeared (Science Fiction Monthly 75-08). Ray Feibush, Not Before Time” by John Brunner, a collection of sci-fi short stories, 1968.Bruce Pennington, New Worlds, No. 6, Sphere SF anthology 1973.
