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From: robertsl@stolaf.UUCP (Laurence C. Roberts)
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Subject: Re: Re: Science Fiction in Music
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Date: Tue, 16-Jul-85 14:41:00 EDT
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> Spider Robinson did one about a rock singer wired for empathy.
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If you're talking about _Stone_ with Jain Snow, and the narrator the controller
of the empathy circuits, I believe that was Edward Bryant... possibly in Orbit
or else a Nebula anthology or a Gardner Dozois one or... in any case, a real
good story.  

Other sf-music things are _In_Pierson's_Orchestra_ and one about a band composed
of space miners in Orbit or some such, by Stanley Robinson.  Also Sucharikul's
Light_on_the_Sound series has a lot to do with music, as he's a composer, and
working on an opera with Gene Wolfe last I heard.

For really GREAT music sf, how about Anne McCaffery's _Crystal_Singer_ or even
the Dragonsinger books?  What about Piers Anthony's _Chaining_The_Lady_, with
a whole race of aliens adapted for creating music?  I really liked this stuff,
before I got so highbrow.

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