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From: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Re: Science Fiction in Music
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Date: Tue, 16-Jul-85 14:21:23 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 16 14:21:23 1985
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Summary: Arthur C Clarke story



>> 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?  One such might be Melinda
>> Snodgrass's Star Trek novel, _The_Tears_of_the_Singers_.


Well, there was a story by Arthur C Clarke, called _The_Ultimate_Melody_
(I think).  It appeared in his collection _Tales_From_the_White_Hart_.

BTW, did those stories by Clarke create the "tall tales in a bar" subgenre,
or did someone else do it even earlier?