Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site topaz.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!packard!topaz!Alan%DCT.AC.UK%DUNDEE.AC.UK From: Alan%DCT.AC.UK%DUNDEE.AC.UK@ucl-cs.ARPA Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Science Fiction in Music Message-ID: <2655@topaz.ARPA> Date: Wed, 10-Jul-85 15:01:22 EDT Article-I.D.: topaz.2655 Posted: Wed Jul 10 15:01:22 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 12-Jul-85 03:10:29 EDT Sender: daemon@topaz.ARPA Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 35 From: Alan GreigI've been following SF-LOVERS for about 9 months now and I've seen many forms of SF discussed with the exception of one which I find surprising. Nobody ever seems to talk about music, either its SF content or the influences it may have had on some piece of SF writing. I could give a few examples of both. How about for example : Genesis: Watcher of the Skies Hawkwind: Sonic Attack (even written by Michael Moorcock) David Bowie: Major Tom Pink Floyd: Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun (Did this influence Douglas Adams when he wrote of Disaster Area? "Ford, did you know that robot can hum like Pink Floyd ?") Rush: 2112 Plus lots of other tracks by these or other groups. What does everyone else think ? There seems no reason to me why words and music are less valid as Sci-Fi than words and paper or words and acting. Alan Greig Computer Centre Dundee College of Technology Dundee Scotland Janet: Alan%DCT@DDXA Arpa: Alan%DCT@UCL-CS.ARPA -------