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9:18 and I'm posting and listening to Bowie instead of pushing through the snowstorm to work.

You know, it occurs to me that LiveJournal can be summed by the lyric from Ashes to Ashes:

I've loved and I've needed love
Sordid details following...

50 Most Significant Sci-Fi & Fantasy Books Meme

These are the 50 most significant SF & Fantasy Books of the last 50 Years, 1953-2002. Bold the ones you've read, strike the ones you hated, italicize the ones you couldn't get through, asterisks for the ones you loved (more asterisks, more love).

Ganked from painglass

Notes: 50 most significant according to whom? I'm shocked how many of these I've read! Some of the asterisks are based on enthusiasms I had as much as 32 years ago (assuming I read none of these before 13). I wonder how many would hold up. I want to read that Ellison-edited collection. I may have, actually... Tempus fugit.

( The list... )

Missing: SF Short Story

In light of the previous post, I thought I'd see if anyone can help me find an SF short story I read back in the late 70s or early 80s.

In a totalitarian regime, a infant is determined to possess huge talent for music. In order to assure that everything he creates will be utterly original, he is taken from his parents and completely isolated in a cabin with a fancy keyboard. However, a voice comes to the boy from outside, singing him songs from earlier times. When his keepers hear these influences enter his music, he is savagely removed from his isolation and mutilated. He is forbidden to make music again.

Does this sound familiar to anyone? I remember being very affected by it and I would love to know what it's called and who wrote it.