Word: starman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bowie's compositions. And for me, they increase the desperate quality of his songs. One has to be in the very depths of malaise in order to bank hopes on the possibility of star travel, extraterrestial visitors or any of the technological redemptions that Bowie offers in numbers like "Starman" or "Moonage Daydream." One of his most poignant cuts relates the paltry and vicious in everyday life, only to conclude with the mysterious chorus "Is There Life On Mars?" The frustration and loneliness is so extreme that a human solution is precluded...
Which perhaps needs a moment of explanation. Heinlein, "the dean of space-age fiction," has been one of my favorite people since I was ten. Red Planet, Between Planets, Have Spacesuit- Will Travel, Pod kayne of Mars, Starman Jones, The Star Beast, The Puppet Masters, The Menace from Earth- I have read all of his books at least twice, and many of them ten or twelve times. And so have millions of sci-fi freaks around the country. I imagine that a lot of them right now are holding their heads and moaning, "Bobbie, Bobby Heinlein, how could you treat...