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ASTRID JULIAN

BLOWUP

Lyrics for "The View from the Moon" by Geoffrey A. Landis

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If you attend one of the many science fiction conventions around the nation,
you'll hear editors beg for hard science fiction stories. Or off-world science
fiction stories. Or even science fiction stories set on the good old Moon.

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New writer Astrid Julian manages to make the Moon and the hard science fiction
story fresh. "Blow-up" is her first sale to F&SF. She has also sold stories to
Interzone, Writers of the Future, and Xanadu 3.

SIEG HEIL!" IT BURST OUT of Charlotte before she could stop herself. She felt
her cheeks warm as she looked at the TV-watching faces in the room about her
and
realized she'd just insulted the musical tastes of most of them.

The video panned across the thousands of screaming faces in the stadium. Fans
swaying back and forth to the music, their hands raised, resembled the
fanatics
of another age just as eager to follow the lead of a single man

Lyrics from Jimmy St. August's latest hit thudded through the TV speakers. The
voice of the stadium mob became a dark echo that sang along.

"In dirty crowded tenements we huddle here like rats

The plaster's stained and shattered, with wind blowing through the slats

While they shoot our hard-earned dollars to the Moon

And from the Moon our problems all seem small

They don't see the filth, the vagrants passed out in the hall

Looking down, they can't see us at all

The Moon is cold and creel and has never been alive

And they speak of evolution, that only the strong survive

They dream of butterflies, in titanium cocoons

And from the Moon the damage looks so small

They can't see the weeds and rubble where forests once grew tall