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

[Brendan Quinn]

If we keep on going back then we're gonna get to the Big Bang, which itself
would have been Brighter Than A Thousand Suns...

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Subject: Re: [kj] Author Norman Spinrad's use of the phrase "Brighter Than
aThousand Suns" in the 1970s

i thought that that usage was based on an even earlier ancient text??
one of the old mahurana yada yada's..???

(devacor may know more on this....?)


=)


On Jan 16, 2008 9:11 AM, fatpotanga <fatpotanga at gmail.com> wrote:

>

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

atom

> bomb

>

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>

>

> 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.

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>

> -Oliver

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