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From: freeman@spar.UUCP (Jay Freeman)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: SF with musical themes
Message-ID: <401@spar.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 16-Jul-85 21:40:45 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 16 21:40:45 1985
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In article <3140@decwrl.UUCP> you write:

>Somebody wrote about a spacehand who was blinded in an engine-room accident,
>and becomes a hobo-minstrel whose songs become famous throughout the system.
>Could it have been "Green Hills of Earth" ?

Yes -- the author was Heinlein.

An interesting point in fact following fiction:  Selections of Heinlein's
poetry from that story have frequently flown on space missions.  We didn't
have a poet of the spaceways when the story was written, but because of it,
we do now ...




-- 
Jay Reynolds Freeman (Schlumberger Palo Alto Research)(canonical disclaimer)