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From: Tony Nance <tnusenet17@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Revisit] SF Stories written for paintings
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On 7/31/24 2:21 PM, Michael F. Stemper wrote:
> On 29/07/2024 09.13, Tony Nance wrote:
>>
>> There was a somewhat recent question (thread?) here asking about SF 
>> stories written for already-existing paintings. Last night, I ran 
>> across a reference to such a story.
> 
> I seem to have missed that thread, so I might be replowing a furrow, but
> Asimov said that "Founding Father" [1] was written for this cover:
> <https://www.isfdb.org/wiki/images/6/69/GALOCT65.jpg>
> 


I don't remember that cover, but holy cow, what a list of authors for 
that issue.

Tony


>> [1] The intro for the story “The Critique of Impure Reason”.[2]
> 
> Fun story.
> 
>> [2] Note that “The Critique … ” is not such a story, though it’s 
>> adjacent, since Poul goes on to say:
>> “At another time, being in a mood to write something short but without 
>> an idea that caught my fancy, I said to my wife “Tell me a cover”. She 
>> thought for a moment and replied “A man sitting at a desk, worked to 
>> death, while a robot lounges beside him smelling a rose”. Ah, ha!”[3]
> 
> Sounds like a Gallagher story.[2]
> 
> [1] <https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?52473>
> [2] <https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?349781>
>