[kj] Author Norman Spinrad's use of the phrase "Brighter Than a Thousand Suns" in the 1970s

[fatpotanga]

the phrase originally comes from Oppenheimers (sp?) description of  
the atom bomb


On 15 Jan 2008, at 19:24, B. Oliver Sheppard wrote:


> Is this a well known thing? Was reading a short story by sci-fi  

> author Norman Spinrad today, "The Big Flash," about a rock group  

> called the Four Horsemen who help provoke Armageddon. They use an  

> uadio visual display for their band that includes a film with  

> someone reciting the line "Brighter than a thousand suns..."

>

> Is this common Killing Joke lore? I was pretty stunned when I read  

> this. The Spinrad story "The Big Flash" is in a collection of post- 

> apocalyptic sci-fi and horror stories called _Beyond Armageddon_.  

> Like I said, the story itself was written during the Nixon  

> administration.

>

>

> -Oliver

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