Songs of a Sentient Flute

Herbert, Frank. "Songs of a Sentient Flute." Analog (February 1979). Collected The Collected Stories of Frank Herbert. New York, NY: Tor/Tom Doherty Associates, 2014. In Medea: Harlan's World. Harlan Ellison, editor. New York: Bantam Spectra and Phantasia Press, 1985. See Internet Speculative Fiction Database at link.[1]

Reviewed by Bruce A. Beatie, SFRA Review #315 (Winter 2016): pp. 25-29, who gives a brief history of the genesis of the story and identifies it as "a seed story" for The Jesus Incident, which see at link, under Fiction.[2]

RDE, finishing, 18Aug21