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From: mary@bunkerb.UUCP (Mary Shurtleff)
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Subject: Re: Music in SF
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Date: Fri, 19-Jul-85 08:08:24 EDT
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> From: kdale@MINET-VHN-EM
> 
> 
> >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?
> 
> One story that I haven't seen mentioned is:
>   Cherryh's "Crystal Singer" (it *was* Cherryh, wasn't it?)
> 

No, it was Anne McCaffrey, actually.

Another example of musically-oriented SF is the short story "The Tunesmith",
by Lloyd Biggle, Jr.  It tells of a man named Erlin Baq who writes jingles
for commercials which become popular for themselves.  There's lots more
to it than that, but it would take a while to describe.  It's a very good
story.


M. Shurtleff                    ....decvax!ittatc!bunker!bunkerb!mary

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