It has another name, a long one, that gets listed in government appropriations and has its derivation analyzed in encyclopedias, but no one uses it. the whole story in my foreword to Lloyd Biggle, Jr.'s, story Tunesmith. Browse plot descriptions, book covers, genres, pseudonyms. Even the finest tunesmiths regularly derive inspiration by drawing on or re-adapting the existing body of pop music to which theyve been exposed. my afterword for this story was very brief: 'Unaccompanied Sonata' began. From Bombay to Lima, from Spitsbergen to the mines of Antarctica, from the solitary outpost on Pluto to that on Mercury, it is-the Center. A complete list of all Lloyd Biggle Jr.s books & series in order (27 books) (2 series). (Ap September 12, 2002), was an American musician, author, and internationally known oral historian. You can emerge from the rolling mists of the Amazon, or the cutting dry winds of the Sahara, or the lunar vacuum, elbow your way up to a bar, and begin, “When I was at the Center-” and every stranger within hearing will listen attentively. (1923-2002) Biggle's novelette 'The Botticelli Horror' was the cover story for the March 1960 issue of Fantastic Lloyd Biggle Jr. It isn't possible to explain the Center, and it isn't necessary. It is the vacation land of the Solar System.įrom the babe in arms to the centenarian looking forward to retirement, everyone has been there, and plans to go again next year, and the year after that. It is square miles of undulating American Middle West farm land, transfigured by ingenious planning and relentless labor and incredible expense. It is a monumental summary of man's cultural heritage, and like a phoenix, it has emerged suddenly, inexplicably, at the end of the twenty-fourth century, from the corroded ashes of an appalling cultural decay. Eye For Eye / The Tunesmith (Tor Science Fiction Double, No 27) by Orson Scott Card, Lloyd Biggle, Jr, November 15, 1990, Tor Books edition, Paperback in English. The Center is colossal, spectacular and magnificent. It is a monumental summary of man's cultural heritage, and like a phoenix, it has emerged. It is awesome, it is overpowering, it is-everything.Īnd though few of its visitors know about this, or care, it is also haunted. THE TUNESMITH Everyone calls it the Center. You are standing in the observation gallery of the towering Bach Monument. Off to the left, on the slope of a hill, you see the tense spectators who crowd the Grecian Theater for Euripides. He served in World War II as a communications sergeant in a rifle company of the 102nd Infantry Division during the war, he was wounded twice. Sunlight plays on their brightly-colored clothing. Biggle was born in 1923 in Waterloo, Iowa. As Card says, We care about moral issues, nobility, decency, happiness, goodness-the issues that matter in the real world.
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