THE LEFT LANE
Tolkien tops sci-fi list

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J. K. Rowling's "Harry Potter" series didn't make the cut.

"More time has to pass before you can gauge if something is overwhelmingly significant," said Andrew Wheeler, an editor for the 50-year-old club. "In another 25 years, I think it's a fair chance she'll be on it."

The rankings, in order from No. 2: "The Foundation Trilogy," Isaac Asimov; "Dune," Frank Herbert; "Stranger in the Strange Land," Robert A Heinlein; "A Wizard of Earthsea," Ursula K. LeGuin; "Neuromancer," William Gibson; "Childhood's End," Arthur C. Clarke; "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?," Philip K. Dick; "The Mists of Avalon," Marion Zimmer Bradley; "Fahrenheit 452," Ray Bradbury.

Music scholarships

Brook Lee

They all previously won the Hawai'i Academy of Recording Arts' Bill Murata Memorial Scholarship, which gives two $2,500 stipends a year to further musical interests and studies. Murata was an award-winning record producer.

Applications are being accepted by HARA for this year's honorees. Candidates must be college sophomores who have demonstrated an interest in some area of Island music or poetry. Applications can be downloaded at www.nahenahe.net/HARA, and are due May 1. Winners will be named at the 26th annual Na Hoku Hanohano Awards evening May 28.

Pearl Harbor inspires

Susan D. Wiseman was on O'ahu visiting firefighter Lee Muller, whom she met while working on a 9/11 tribute song, when she took a trip to the Arizona Memorial.

"I was so overcome with the loss, and, after the recent 'Pearl Harbor' movie bringing it all to our attention in my generation, I was inspired to write a song honoring the memory of those who gave so much," she said.

The housewife from Atlanta penned "Remembering Pearl," which you can listen to at susandwiseman.iuma.com.