technovelist wrote:
Anyone have a reference for a short story in which a famous composer is "brought back from the dead"
by giving a completely nonmusical person a "personality transplant" (my term, I'm not sure what it
was called in the story)? The twist is that the "revived composer" realizes just before they take
away the personality transplant is that he is the critics' version of the composer, a complete hack
with no actual original ability.
I read this in a short story collection. It might be James Blish or Arthur C. Clarke but I haven't
seen any titles that ring a bell in their bibliographies.
It is "A work of art" by James Blish. The composer was Richard Strauss.
Robert Mills edited an anthology in which authors were invited to submit >their best stories. This was Blish's choice.
William Hyde
Thanks!
On Mon, 20 May 2024 17:22:22 -0400, William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com> wrote:
technovelist wrote:is "brought back from the dead"
Anyone have a reference for a short story in which a famous composer
(my term, I'm not sure what itby giving a completely nonmusical person a "personality transplant"
the composer, a complete hackwas called in the story)? The twist is that the "revived composer" >realizes just before they take
away the personality transplant is that he is the critics' version of
Arthur C. Clarke but I haven'twith no actual original ability.
I read this in a short story collection. It might be James Blish or
seen any titles that ring a bell in their bibliographies.
It is "A work of art" by James Blish. The composer was Richard Strauss.
Robert Mills edited an anthology in which authors were invited to submit >>their best stories. This was Blish's choice.
William Hyde
In article <69mn4jppd29is4apku7o4njitkt5cpkhm6@4ax.com>,
Chris Duck <chrisduck@coldmail.com> wrote:
Thanks!
On Mon, 20 May 2024 17:22:22 -0400, William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com> wrote:
technovelist wrote:is "brought back from the dead"
Anyone have a reference for a short story in which a famous composer
(my term, I'm not sure what itby giving a completely nonmusical person a "personality transplant"
was called in the story)? The twist is that the "revived composer" >>realizes just before they take
away the personality transplant is that he is the critics' version of >>the composer, a complete hack
with no actual original ability.
I read this in a short story collection. It might be James Blish or >>Arthur C. Clarke but I haven't
seen any titles that ring a bell in their bibliographies.
It is "A work of art" by James Blish. The composer was Richard Strauss.
Robert Mills edited an anthology in which authors were invited to submit >>>their best stories. This was Blish's choice.
William Hyde
That's interesting, in that it certainly doesn't sound as good as say, >"Surface Tensin".
Anyone have a reference for a short story in which a famous composer is "brought back from the dead"
by giving a completely nonmusical person a "personality transplant" (my term, I'm not sure what it
was called in the story)?
In article <he4n4jllrbs57a2rh93s7r1rbf6omd40b2@4ax.com>,
technovelist <steve@subphysical.com> wrote:
Anyone have a reference for a short story in which a famous composer is "brought back from the dead"
by giving a completely nonmusical person a "personality transplant" (my term, I'm not sure what it
was called in the story)?
This only works because he hadn't decomposed yet.
In article <lb28gmF3ugeU1@mid.individual.net>,
Ted Nolan <tednolan> <tednolan> wrote:
In article <69mn4jppd29is4apku7o4njitkt5cpkhm6@4ax.com>,
Chris Duck <chrisduck@coldmail.com> wrote:
Thanks!
On Mon, 20 May 2024 17:22:22 -0400, William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com> wrote:
technovelist wrote:
Anyone have a reference for a short story in which a famous composer >>>is "brought back from the dead"
by giving a completely nonmusical person a "personality transplant" >>>(my term, I'm not sure what it
was called in the story)? The twist is that the "revived composer" >>>realizes just before they take
away the personality transplant is that he is the critics' version of >>>the composer, a complete hack
with no actual original ability.
I read this in a short story collection. It might be James Blish or >>>Arthur C. Clarke but I haven't
seen any titles that ring a bell in their bibliographies.
It is "A work of art" by James Blish. The composer was Richard Strauss. >>>>
Robert Mills edited an anthology in which authors were invited to submit >>>>their best stories. This was Blish's choice.
William Hyde
That's interesting, in that it certainly doesn't sound as good as say, >>"Surface Tensin".
Or "Surface Tension" even..
Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
In article <69mn4jppd29is4apku7o4njitkt5cpkhm6@4ax.com>,<wthyde1953@gmail.com> wrote:
Chris Duck <chrisduck@coldmail.com> wrote:
Thanks!
On Mon, 20 May 2024 17:22:22 -0400, William Hyde
technovelist wrote:is "brought back from the dead"
Anyone have a reference for a short story in which a famous composer
(my term, I'm not sure what itby giving a completely nonmusical person a "personality transplant"
realizes just before they takewas called in the story)? The twist is that the "revived composer"
the composer, a complete hackaway the personality transplant is that he is the critics' version of
Arthur C. Clarke but I haven'twith no actual original ability.
I read this in a short story collection. It might be James Blish or
seen any titles that ring a bell in their bibliographies.
It is "A work of art" by James Blish. The composer was Richard Strauss. >>>>
Robert Mills edited an anthology in which authors were invited to submit >>>> their best stories. This was Blish's choice.
William Hyde
That's interesting, in that it certainly doesn't sound as good as say,
"Surface Tensin".
It's a complex story about identity, and while the context is distinctly >secular, I think it resonates with some of the religious issues which
form part of Blish's fiction.
Also, it's quite an original story, and the twist at the end is nice,
the kind you should have foreseen, but probably did not. I can't imagine
any other SF author writing it.
In addition, he seems to have known a fair amount about Strauss, and
this gave him a chance to look at the composer's work from the
perspective of the reconstructed Strauss. The latter does not like some >aspects of the original's work, perhaps giving Blish a chance to air >longstanding irritations.
If I were to write a similar story about Dvorak, for example, I'd have
the reconstructed Anton wonder how he could have marred so great a work
as this eighth symphony with such a slapdash ending (as I understand it,
the musical world somehow disagrees with me about this, perhaps as much
as I disagree with Blish about Strauss. How inexplicable!)
William Hyde
What's the short story that inspired the film "Idiocracy"?
Or maybe didn't "inspire" it, but the idea is the same. Might have
been late Golden Age.
What's the short story that inspired the film "Idiocracy"?
Or maybe didn't "inspire" it, but the idea is the same. Might have
been late Golden Age.
What's the short story that inspired the film "Idiocracy"?
Or maybe didn't "inspire" it, but the idea is the same. Might have
been late Golden Age.
In 'The Marching Morons', one way Homo Dumb was misled to think he lived
a sophisticated life was that his mediocre cars played fake vroom vroom >noises into the cabin.
I was amused to find that now some 'sporty' cars do exactly this.
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