Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!kcarroll From: kcarroll@utzoo.UUCP (Kieran A. Carroll) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Klaatu Message-ID: <3990@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Mon, 25-Jun-84 15:59:29 EDT Article-I.D.: utzoo.3990 Posted: Mon Jun 25 15:59:29 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 25-Jun-84 15:59:29 EDT References: <1004@sri-arpa.UUCP> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 22 * Apologies if a munged-up version of this article was already posted; that's the way it goes. So, I'm not the only one to confuse the story "Farewell to the Master", by Harry Bates, and the Kelly Freas cover illustrating a Tom Godwin story about a military type who learned, to his dismay, that computers do >exactly< what you tell them to. Both appeared in Astounding SF; however, the Godwin story came out in 1953. Trivia question: who knows the title of Godwin's story? And another: what other story is Godwin justifiably well known for? True, the Freas cover was later adapted as a record jacket for a Queen album. It was also used as the cover illo. for an anthology edited by Harry Harrison, a "last issue of Astounding", which came out shortly after Campbell's death. As a result, three images are inextricably mixed up in my memory: my sorrow on learning of Campbell's death, the feeling of loss at the end of "Farewell to the Master", and the painting of a robot gently holding the dead body of a once- powerful man, as if asking, "Please fix it..." -Kieran A. Carroll ...decvax!utzoo!kcarroll