Re: YASID - Beethoven and time travel

On 17 Jul 2006, HVS wrote

On 17 Jul 2006, wrote


HVS wrote:
Trying to ID a story I read about 40 years ago, and it was
suggested that I post here.

It revolved around a company selling time-travel trips to
visit the minds of people in the past; the idea was that
the travellers got to "sit in" while a great figure from the
past was doing his great

[...]

Scholz, Carter,
--The Ninth Symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven and Other Lost
Songs, in Universe 7, 1977.

Exactly what I was looking for, William; many thanks.

Follow-up, having poked around a bit.

I didn't realise that Scholz also wrote the story about the guy who
submits a word-for-word copy of "The Nine Billion Names of God" for
publication, and then tries to convince the publisher that he wrote
it independently, without having ever seen the Clarke story.

That, too, waa a rather neat idea.

--
Cheers,
Harvey
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