PF@MIT-XX@sri-unix.UUCP (08/26/83)
From: Paul Fuqua <PF@MIT-XX>
"Star Bright" appeared in a collection edited by Damon Knight entitled
"Tomorrow's Children," possibly along with "It's a Good Life," the story
adapted into the Twilight Zone episode discussed a couple weeks ago. (I read
it in high school, so between 6 and 9 years ago, but I still remember both
stories.)
I certainly hope Margaret of "Liquid Sky" was a decadent, and not a
decedent as quoted in the review.
Now, will someone out there help *me* find a story? If my memory has
not failed me, it is "A Song for Lya," by George R R Martin. The major
characters are a married couple, one a telepath, the other an empath, who are
some sort of interplanetary detectives. The object of their investigations
is a creature called the Greeshka, a protoplasmoid Thing parts of which
attach themselves to the humans living nearby, to the humans' apparent
benefit and with their consent. I read the story in some anthology or other,
edited by either Robert Silverberg or Damon Knight (that narrows it down,
doesn't it), but I've checked many of them out already. I'd appreciate any
pointers, half-pointers, trace memories, if they lead me in the right
direction. Thanks.
Paul Fuqua
pf@xx (mit-xx)