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Subject: Music in SF, SF in Music
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Date: Sat, 20-Jul-85 13:56:19 EDT
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From: Mike Thome <MTHOME@BBNG.ARPA>

	While I can't think of many authors who *often* use music
as a central theme (with McCaffrey as the one who first comes to mind),
there do seem to be a great many short stories that deal with music and
the other arts...
	McCaffrey: Dragon{song,singer,drums} & Crystal singer
	Sucharitkul: Many of his short stories that make up his books
		(Inquestor series, Mallworld) have music/poetry/art as
		a *very* important theme - on the other hand, most of
		THESE arts don't exist here/now (darkweaver and dust
		sculptor (?) stick in my mind). (Why haven't I seen much
		(any) discussion of this author?)
	Robinson: Many of his "crosstime saloon" stories use music - 
		"Wolfstroker" and the one about Bobbi Joy (is this the
		right name?) stick in my mind... and, of course, you get
		the puns for free...
	Also, I remember a couple of very good short stories about music/art,
but don't remember who wrote them: a wonderful story about a woman who teaches
a forest to play classical music (what is this? I NEED to know!), and an
interesting one in analog a year or so ago about an art critic visiting a
"revolutionary" new artist (who isn't human) - called "The Critic", maybe?
	Anyway - that's about 1/2 hour of thought on the subject - there
has got to be much more out there.  I hope I gave enough clues to ID the
unknowns above to someone out there... I'de like to know too...
	Oh yes, for SF-style music, try "The Essential Jean Michel Jarre"
which is a very good selection from his other albums.

	Mike Thome
	mthome@bbn

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