Path: ...!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Tony Nance Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: [Revisit] SF Stories written for paintings Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2024 08:32:20 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 36 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2024 14:32:21 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="10b15ac586b7b6eb271c80dbbf3b9020"; logging-data="2281705"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18dXhChyWvBWjqKEd2BUvB3kJPw/XDSGGU=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:A2kIMFR+bvWHISwiHK+vWbJ6B/c= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2344 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: > > 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] > [2] >