In Biggles's novelette, "Orphan of the Void," (1960) a n'er-do-well alcoholic songwriter named Marty Worrel writes a "homing song" that inexplicably sends abductees from all over the galaxy on a search for their planets of origin. Heinlein sexual politics, and from Lloyd Biggles aesthetics. From Bradbury I learned expression, from Asimov form, from Robert A. Clarke informed me as to the shape of things to come. Instead, science fiction writers like Ray Bradbury, Issac Asimov, and Arthur C. Wise-God bless her-whose fourth grade field trip consisted of the discovery of a roiling sand storm in the middle of a bone-dry Red River. When I was a somewhat strange and lonely child even while growing up among four siblings in West Texas and Southwestern Oklahoma, my secret yet true educators were not the like of Mrs. In any case, it was not my definitive choice for the title of this book even though it has always been the working title and I would like to explain how that came to be. The word "Tunesmith" is on one hand the trivial and offhand diminutive with which gossip columnists have been known to refer to creators of such gravity as Johnny Mercer, a lyricist, and on the other, a self-demeaning affectation employed by many composers to camouflage egos larger than the Death Star (as in "I am but an humble tunesmith."). That rhymes with talent, that takes talent Now think of the good time we just had together Now notice how cleverly I just used them both Now think of something sad or something funny
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