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From: phil@rice.ARPA
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Subject: Re: SF and Music
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Date: Wed, 17-Jul-85 13:52:44 EDT
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From: William LeFebvre <phil@rice.ARPA>

> And while we're on the subject, where in the real **HARD SCIENCE**
> stories is music, or any of the arts?  

Do you consider Anne McCaffrey (sp?) "hard science"?  "Hard science
fiction"?  Well, anyway, the arts certainly played an important part in
her dragonrider trilogy, and even more so in her harper hall trilogy.
The Masterharper was a very important person on Pern -- he and his
underlings were the keepers of tradition and the individuals that
inspired honor in the people of Pern.

And (VERY mild SPOLIER HERE...) one of the major problems that Pern had
was a lack of communication between generations because of a lack of
written history.

			William LeFebvre
			Department of Computer Science
			Rice University
			<phil@Rice.arpa>
                        or, for the daring: <phil@Rice.edu>