Oh, good, I have. But the old link’s dead. Well, this one isn’t.
I have no proof as to what tune Randall Garrett wrote his verse review of The Caves of Steel to, but I use “She’ll Be Comin’ Around the Mountain When She Comes.” It fits Garrett’s rhyme scheme, which sometimes seems designed pretty explicitly to piss off people who weren’t as good at writing light verse as he was. Which is to say, virtually everybody who writes light verse. That man was a maddeningly good author.
Not that I ever experienced it firsthand. Still, here’s Randall Garrett adapting Isaac Asimov’s The Caves of Steel to verse form.
Enjoy.
Moe Lane
PS: Randall Garrett did the same thing to The Demolished Man. Both of these are great fun to sing, by the way.
Come, I will conceal nothing from you: when it comes to blogging, there are hassles. Nothing like dangerous hassles, or even the ones associated with ‘mere’ hard physical labor: but it’s not all beer and skittles. You have to wade through a lot of junk… and the more well-known that you are, the more junk you have to wade through. After a certain point, you get sent junk to wade through – and you have to be polite about it, too.
Still, there are news stories that make up for the hassles. One of these was in 2009, when I woke up to discover that the NJ Hudson County Democratic party had just been thrown into jail – and it just kept getting better. It is a glorious day for partisan political blogging when one discovers that “human organ trafficking” is an actual charge on the rap sheet associated with one’s political opponents. The posts write themselves.
All of which is why I’m making The Jersey Sting: A True Story of Crooked Pols, Money-Laundering Rabbis, Black Market Kidneys, and the Informant Who Brought It All Down Book of the Week. Normally, I’d shorten the title of these things to just the title, but that subtitle deserves its proper place in all of this.
And so, farewell to The Best of Randall Garrett
I’m going with The Best of Randall Garrett: 43 Novels and Short Stories (Unexpurgated Edition) (Halcyon Classics), despite the fact that it’s only available on the Kindle, for one basic reason: Randall Garrett is quite possibly the most under-appreciated and overlooked science fiction writer of the 20th Century, and you will not regret reading him. If you only know him from the Lord Darcy series then it’s not so bad, but the man had an effortless way of writing that makes it fairly incomprehensible to me why he wasn’t more commercially successful. (Shrug) It happens.
And so, farewell to Marque and Reprisal. Fun series.
