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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