Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 (Tek) 9/26/83; site orca.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!zehntel!tektronix!orca!brucec From: brucec@orca.UUCP (Bruce Cohen) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Queens/ASF cover Message-ID: <919@orca.UUCP> Date: Fri, 29-Jun-84 16:47:09 EDT Article-I.D.: orca.919 Posted: Fri Jun 29 16:47:09 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 3-Jul-84 02:36:29 EDT References: <1297@sri-arpa.UUCP> Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR Lines: 30 >> There IS a picture of a robot holding a 'broken' human which was both >> a Queens album cover and an ASF cover. However, I am almost certain >> that the story was NOT "Farewell to the Master". Right, it's not "Farewell to the Master." I have a print of the painting, and it is in fact by Kelly Freas (I believe that it was his first cover for ASF, but I might be off by one or two). It illustrates a story by Tom Godwin who later wrote "The Cold Equations". I think the story is called "The Gulf Between." It appeared in ASF in the early 50's - 1953 sounds right; part of the story line gives evidence that it was written before the end of the Korean War. The key line of the story, which I give with a spoiler warning below, ought to be engraved in every computer {scientist,engineer,programmer}'s mind is ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- SPOILER WARNING: I'M GIVING AWAY THE LAST LINE OF THE STORY ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "A machine does not care." Bruce Cohen UUCP: ...!tektronix!orca!brucec CSNET: orca!brucec@tektronix ARPA: orca!brucec.tektronix@rand-relay USMail: M/S 61-183 Tektronix, Inc. P.O. Box 1000 Wilsonville, OR 97070