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From: Alan%DCT.AC.UK%DUNDEE.AC.UK@ucl-cs.ARPA
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Subject: Science Fiction in Music
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Date: Wed, 10-Jul-85 15:01:22 EDT
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From: Alan Greig 

I'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

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