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From: Bobbie Sellers <blissInSanFrancisco@mouse-potato.com>
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Subject: Re: [Revisit] SF Stories written for paintings
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2024 17:08:54 -0700
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On 8/1/24 05:32, Tony Nance wrote:
> 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

	Like you that cover is forgotten but the authors if reading
continues will live forever.
	bliss
> 
> 
>>> [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>
>>
> 


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