Focus on The Eye of Silence and discuss the Influence.
A portion of the painting (the upper-left) was used as the original cover art for the mass market paperback printing of the 1958 science fiction novel A Case of Conscience. British science fiction writer J. G. Ballard was influenced by the painting, which was one of the main sources for Ballard's 1970 novel The Atrocity Exhibition.
J. G. Ballard The Atrocity Exhibition science fiction A Case of Conscience