JACOB@CMU-CS-C.ARPA (06/26/84)
There IS a picture of a robot holding a 'broken' human which was both a Queens album cover and an ASF cover. However, I am almost certain that the story was NOT "Farewell to the Master". Unfortunately, I can't look it up 'cause my ASF collection is conspicuously elsewhere. I'm also not so sure that Kelly Freas drew it, but it's possible. ~Jacob Butcher jacob@cmu-cs-c.arpa -------
brucec@orca.UUCP (Bruce Cohen) (06/29/84)
<Om mani padme om - No, no, only use ONE hand to clap> >> There IS a picture of a robot holding a 'broken' human which was both >> a Queens album cover and an ASF cover. However, I am almost certain >> that the story was NOT "Farewell to the Master". Right, it's not "Farewell to the Master." I have a print of the painting, and it is in fact by Kelly Freas (I believe that it was his first cover for ASF, but I might be off by one or two). It illustrates a story by Tom Godwin who later wrote "The Cold Equations". I think the story is called "The Gulf Between." It appeared in ASF in the early 50's - 1953 sounds right; part of the story line gives evidence that it was written before the end of the Korean War. The key line of the story, which I give with a spoiler warning below, ought to be engraved in every computer {scientist,engineer,programmer}'s mind is ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- SPOILER WARNING: I'M GIVING AWAY THE LAST LINE OF THE STORY ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "A machine does not care." Bruce Cohen UUCP: ...!tektronix!orca!brucec CSNET: orca!brucec@tektronix ARPA: orca!brucec.tektronix@rand-relay USMail: M/S 61-183 Tektronix, Inc. P.O. Box 1000 Wilsonville, OR 97070
mwm@ea.UUCP (07/04/84)
#R:sri-arpa:-129700:ea:11700014:000:154 ea!mwm Jul 3 19:24:00 1984 In _Frank Kelly Freas, The Art of Science Fiction_, the ASF cover queen used is listed as for: _The Gulf Between_, by Tom Goodwin, Oct 53 ASF. <mike