Re: [Revisit] SF Stories written for paintings

On 7/31/24 2:21 PM, Michael F. Stemper wrote:

On 29/07/2024 09.13, Tony Nance wrote:

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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.

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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:
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  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]

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Fun story.
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[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]

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Sounds like a Gallagher story.[2]
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[1] <https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?52473>
[2] <https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?349781>
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