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| Meloderge | ||
| Automated music player. |
| He turned to shuffle down the inviting ramp into the glowing interior of Burshis’ dive.
The place was crowded with men and smoke... ...the tall stranger fumbled briefly, tossed a coin on the countertop, and hustled Ryd out, past the blue and-gold-lit meloderge that was softly pouring out its endlessly changing music, through the swinging doors into the dark. |
| Technovelgy from Saboteur of Space,
by Robert Abernathy. Published by Planet Stories in 1944 Additional resources -
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Compare to the machine music from The Machine Stops (1909) by EM Forster, the robot music described in The Robot God (1941) by Ray Cummings, the mechanical tune-maker (1954) from The Last of the Masters by Philip K. Dick and the computer-created dub from Neuromancer by William Gibson.
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