{"id":3273,"date":"2005-12-17T22:15:27","date_gmt":"2005-12-18T06:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2005\/12\/17\/3273.html"},"modified":"2005-12-17T22:15:27","modified_gmt":"2005-12-18T06:15:27","slug":"rip-robert-sheckley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2005\/12\/17\/rip-robert-sheckley\/","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P., Robert Sheckley"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Most of you who would care know by now that sf author <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sheckley.com\/\">Robert Sheckley<\/a> died a week ago.<\/p>\n<p>It's been a while since I read any of his stuff, but I've liked what I've read.  I suspect some of his books are now in boxes in my garage; I'll keep an eye out for them.<\/p>\n<p>Some Sheckley links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_Sheckley\">Wikipedia article<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfwa.org\/News\/rsheckley.htm\">SFWA obituary<\/a><\/li>\n<li>One of his last stories: \"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.infinitematrix.net\/stories\/shorts\/reborn.html\">Reborn Again<\/a>,\" published at <cite>The Infinite Matrix<\/cite> back in January<\/li>\n<li>\"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.strangehorizons.com\/2000\/20000925\/Article_Sheckley_Horwich.shtml\">Irony and Misunderstanding in the Stories of Robert Sheckley<\/a>,\" an article by David Horwich, published at SH five years ago<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/12\/10\/books\/10sheckley.html?ei=5090&en=29bf6a4589957d38&ex=1291870800&adxnnl=1&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&adxnnlx=1134885970-9zfh8MTBSvOhTpWEWewJrg\"><cite>New York Times<\/cite> obituary<\/a>, which also appears on the above-linked Sheckley home page, at least for the time being<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of you who would care know by now that sf author Robert Sheckley died a week ago. It&#8217;s been&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,14,53,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-death","category-links","category-speculative-fiction"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}