Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site spar.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!decvax!decwrl!spar!freeman 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 Article-I.D.: spar.401 Posted: Tue Jul 16 21:40:45 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 18-Jul-85 06:30:29 EDT References: <3140@decwrl.UUCP> Reply-To: freeman@max.UUCP (Jay Freeman) Organization: Schlumberger Palo Alto Research, CA Lines: 19 [] 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)