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!cbosgd!ihnp4!ucbvax!decvax!decwrl!spar!freeman From: freeman@spar.UUCP (Jay Freeman) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Science Fiction in Music Message-ID: <391@spar.UUCP> Date: Thu, 11-Jul-85 17:56:18 EDT Article-I.D.: spar.391 Posted: Thu Jul 11 17:56:18 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Jul-85 11:47:03 EDT References: <2655@topaz.ARPA> Reply-To: freeman@max.UUCP (Jay Freeman) Organization: Schlumberger Palo Alto Research, CA Lines: 30 [ The line-eater is an intergalactic plot!! ] In article <2655@topaz.ARPA> Alan%DCT.AC.UK%DUNDEE.AC.UK@ucl-cs.ARPA writes: >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. Hear, hear!! >I could give a few examples of both. How about [...] And let us not forget the Moody Blues: "To Our Children's Children's Children" is a fine album, and it seems to me to have been the result of a deliberate attempt to write score and libretto for Olaf Stapledon's deep (and slightly ponderous) novel, _The_Star_Maker_. (Has anyone heard for sure?) The opening cut from the album is also an outstanding attempt to capture on media the auditory sensations of a major launch vehicle ascent (Saturn V or Proton). >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. I concur. And as an attempt to come up with a gap-bridging conversation-starter, can anyone think of interesting examples of written SF in which music played a dominant theme? One such might be Melinda Snodgrass's Star Trek novel, _The_Tears_of_the_Singers_. -- Jay Reynolds Freeman (Schlumberger Palo Alto Research)(canonical disclaimer)