Janis Ian’s Song for SF Fans

Folks, if you are a science fiction fan, read science fiction as escape when you were a kid, grew up loving the genre more than anything, you will want to listen to and read the words for this wonderful song Janis Ian wrote for the SFWA Awards this year.

Janis used her classic song melody, and the words show just how much she loves science fiction. Kris has both the song and words, with permission, up on her site, so go there and listen. Janis Ian’s Song for SF Fans.

If you are a true sf fan, if you were one of those kids traveling with the greats to their wonderful worlds to spend a few hours out of your own world, if those books and stories seemed more real to you than your own world at times, it will be impossible to listen to this song and not tear up.

When someone gets it, someone gets it. Go listen.

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4 Responses to Janis Ian’s Song for SF Fans

  1. Louis says:

    Thanks. I left a thank you at Kris’ site but thanks to you for posting a link here.

    I see Ian is a Star Trek fan along with other SF. :)

    But I still can’t figure out the “ugly chickens”.

  2. Great song. I think I only missed about three of the references. The slow glass reference was a bit of a surprise. Great story (“The Light of Other Days”) but not one I’ve seen reprinted much (if at all).

  3. Louis says:

    Thanks Steve, I never thought about going to wikipedia for a story. But the link they have for that story took me to an error page.

    From the description of his writing, I may have read some of his stories. I don’t always catch the name of the writer when I read short stories.

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