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From: barry@ames-lm.UUCP (Kenn Barry)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Klaatu (and Queen/ASF)
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Date: Fri, 29-Jun-84 03:05:40 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 29 03:05:40 1984
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     Lest there be any lingering confusion:

     1) The ASF cover which inspired the album cover for Queen's
"News of the World" is from the 10/53 issue, was done by Frank
Kelly Freas, and illustrates a Tom Godwin story, "The Gulf Between".
     2) The story "Farewell To The Master", by Harry Bates (on
which the movie "The Day the Earth Stood Still" was loosely based)
appeared in the 10/40 issue of ASF, 13 years before the cover, and
is totally unrelated.

     On to trivia; utzoo!kcaroll asked what story Tom Godwin was best
known for - it's "The Cold Equations" (ASF, 8/54). Now, a tougher
question. Now that we know that the Freas "robot" cover was not
from the same issue as "Farewell To The Master"... what story *was*
illustrated on the cover of the 10/40 ASF in which "Farewell To The
Master" appeared (hint: it was not FTTM)?

     Queen seems fond of science fiction - I recommend watching for
their current music video, "Radio Ga-Ga", for another example of this.
It includes many clips from Fritz Lang's "Metropolis", and other parts
that imitate scenes from the film. Pretty good song, too.

                                                Kenn Barry
                                                NASA-Ames Research Center
                                                Moffett Field, CA
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