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Subject: Music in SF Stories
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Date: Wed, 17-Jul-85 12:57:46 EDT
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From: Peter Alfke <Alfke.pasa@Xerox.ARPA>

An excellent sf story with music as a dominant theme:

"Gotta Sing, Gotta Dance" by John Varley.

This story concerns (1) companies that buy musical compositions (and
other abstract artistic works) created by astronauts who spend years
alone; and (2) a synthesizer that plugs into a human and uses body
position and mental attitude to control the sound it creates.

A really, really good story.  It's in "The Barbie Murders" / "Picnic on
Nearside".

						--Peter Alfke