From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!RHEA::HARDY::GLASSER%Shasta@SU-Score
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Title: Music (again), Intro to SF, Shrinking and other Misc.
Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.118
Posted: Tue Dec 14 10:04:59 1982
Received: Sun Dec 19 04:11:18 1982

Reply to: {ARPA} Daniel Glasser at HARDY c/o <DEC-SFL at DEC-Marlboro>
	  {uucp} ...!decvax!sultan!dag

Music:

In a comment on SF related music in SFL V6 #99, John Francis listed
the song "I'm the Urban Spaceman", by the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band
{Yes, that is their name} as being SF.  Though it has "Spaceman"
in the title, it is not SF.  However, the same group did do several
SF songs, most notably "Beautiful Zela from Galaxy IV".  This song was
on the album "The Doughnut in Granny's Greenhous" (Sunset SLS.50210 -
England).

I was listening to "The Book of Invasions -- A Celtic Symphony" (DJM -
DJLPA-10) by Horslips, and noted a bit of SF/Fantasy sounding lyrics
on the cuts "Trouble" ('High on the mountain stands a boat, but are gods
or real folk?') and "Sideways to the Sun" ('But you won't see us, we've
grown sideways to the sun.')  The album is, on the whole, very good
listening, and is based on a twelfth century chronicle of the various
pre-Christian colonisations of Ireland.

Shrinking:

I've read some stories which involve shrinking in some historical
collections of SF of the thirties and fourties.  The names of the
compilations and the names and authors of the stories escape me,
all of my SF collection is packed for moving.  When I unpack, I'll
name names, if nobody else has done so.  The one that sticks in my
mind (such as it is) concerns a scientist who discovers that atoms
are solar systems and shrinks himself for a visit to a civilized
planet which is one of the electrons (Taking the Bohr model too
literally...).  Another has a scientist growing a portion of a
speck-of-dust planet to our scale and having its flora and fauna
run amok on earth.

Intro To SF:

My first SF is unclear - The first I remember clearly was "Needle"
by Hal Clement.  The second was "Foundation and Empire" (Asimov)
followed by the two other books of the former trilogy.  Since then
I've been an addict.

Miscl:

Didn't ANYBODY else out there like "TITAN" or "WIZARD" by Varley?
I did not think it was that bad.

						Thanks for the disk space,

							Daniel Glasser