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From: EVAN@SU-CSLI.ARPA
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Subject: music in sf
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Date: Sun, 14-Jul-85 17:06:32 EDT
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From: Evan Kirshenbaum <evan@SU-CSLI.ARPA>

>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?  

Stories that come to mind immediately include:
  McCaffrey's ``Harper Hall'' trilogy (Dragonsong, -singer, and
                                       -drums)
  McCaffrey's ``The Ship Who Sang''

Stories which use music, but not as a dominant theme, include:
  Adams' Life,_the_Universe,_and_Everything [The Disaster Area
         concert]
  C. Smith's  ``Under Old Earth'' [The congohelium]
  Anthony's _Macroscope_ [Ivo's flute]
  
Without refering to my collection, that's all I can think of offhand.
McCaffrey's the only author I know of who really uses music as an
important part of the story.

Evan Kirshenbaum
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