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100	1		_aHarrison, Harry, _d1925-2012
245	1	3	_aAn artist's life
264		1	_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2026
300			_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aProduced from Rocket Stories, September 1953 (Vol. 1, No. 3.).
500			_aRelease date is 2026-05-16
508			_aTom Trussel (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Luminist Archive)
520			_aAn artist's life by Harry Harrison is a science fiction short story written in the mid-20th century. It centers on art and perception, following a painter whose hunt for an authentically “alien” vision exposes a concealed extraterrestrial presence operating on Earth. The story follows Brent Dalgreen, a famed artist weakened and dying from radiation after a year painting on the Moon. At the Metropolitan Museum he detects an unsettling, nonhuman sensibility in an autumn landscape by Arthur Di Costa, then meets Di Costa and his wife, noticing the same uncanny slant in a portrait and suspecting an inhuman perspective behind it. Shadowing Di Costa, Brent witnesses a cryptic note trigger a trance and follows him to a hidden underground office, where a powerful telepathic administrator reveals the truth: Earth is used as a covert sanitarium by an advanced alien civilization, and Di Costa—recreated in human form—is a congenitally feeble-minded “outpatient” whose early alien impressions seep into his paintings. When Brent tries to resist, the director subdues him and decides to “dispose” of the risk humanely by relocating him—after curing his radiation damage—to another sanitarium world with a chlorine atmosphere, leaving him unconscious but oddly hopeful about the new colors he might paint there. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534			_pOriginally published: _cNew York: Space Publications, Inc., 1953
653			_aScience fiction
653			_aShort stories
653			_aPainters -- Fiction
700	1		_aBerwin, Milton
830		0	_aProduced from Rocket Stories, September 1953 (Vol. 1, No. 3.).
856	4		_uhttps://s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/luminist/SF/RS_1953_09.pdf
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78693
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