Space Heroes & Other Fools
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| Filk Album | |
|---|---|
| Album Title: | Crystal Singer |
| Producer: | Off Centaur Publications |
| Type: | |
| Date: | 1983 |
| Medium: | cassette tape |
| Fandom: | Multiple Fandoms |
| Performer(s): | Julia Ecklar, Anne Harlan Prather and Leslie Fish. |
| Other: | |
| External Links: | Space Heroes And Other Fools (1983) - LyricWikia - song lyrics - Wikia, Archived version; available on Youtube |
| Click here for related articles on Fanlore. | |
Crystal Singer is a filk cassette tape released by Julia Ecklar, Anne Harlan Prather and Leslie Fish.
Among the songs recorded were "Silver" a song based on a Tanith Lee story "Silver Metal Lover", "Helva's Song" based on Anne McCaffrey's novel "The Ship Who Sang" and "Crystal Singer" based on Anne McCaffrey's book of the same name.
Contents
- Thoughts on Strange Visitors by Julia Ecklar & Anne Harlan Prather
- Ballad to a Spaceman by Julia Ecklar
- Helva's Song by Anne Harlan Prather
- Space Hero by Julia Ecklar & Anne Harlan Prather
- Iron Mistress by Julia Ecklar
- Hero's Lullaby by Anne Harlan Prather
- Hymn to Breaking Strain by Julia Ecklar & Leslie Fish
- Darkness by Julia Ecklar
- Pushing the Speed of Light by Julia Ecklar & Anne Harlan Prather
- Silver by Julia Ecklar & Leslie Fish
- Sybil's Song by Anne Harlan Prather
- Cold Dreams by Julia Ecklar
- Hanrahan's Bar by Julia Ecklar & Anne Harlan Prather
- Crystal Singer by Anne Harlan Prather
- Homecoming by Julia Ecklar & Anne Harlan Prather
- Thoughts of a Homeless Alien by Julia Ecklar
Reactions/Reviews
"I just found [Darkness] and it's heartbreaking and beautiful."[1]
"In case of Julia Ecklar she manages to make this type of music work for me that I wouldn't come close to otherwise. It's so pathetic, this medieval dame with a guitar stuff. But then she's got these awesome lyrics and you notice she's not soft at all. And suddenly I'm screaming along: Not on the Steel - the Man! Haha. And The Darkness? Had me in tears, sobbing like a homeless alien."[2]
"Personally, I found Cold Dreams to be the most poignant. Second I would say Pushing The Speed of Light. Space Hero was pretty terrible, and the more opera-y ones I didn't like so much. But overall, I found the album quite deep."[3]
At Freedom City, a "Blake’s 7" convention, the Fan Guest of Honor was Julia Ecklar, a filker... I ended up with a filk tape called Space Heroes and Other Fools. Though I was unfamiliar with the books and characters that inspired the songs, I could still tell that "Hanrahan’s Bar" was a pretty tough place, and I could cry as two spacefaring lovers are joined in death in "Darkness." [4]