{"id":652,"date":"2007-08-06T22:31:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-06T22:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/2007\/08\/06\/by-klonos-carballoy-claws\/"},"modified":"2007-08-06T22:31:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-06T22:31:00","slug":"by-klonos-carballoy-claws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/2007\/08\/06\/by-klonos-carballoy-claws\/","title":{"rendered":"By Klono&#8217;s carballoy claws!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love E.E. &#8220;Doc&#8221; Smith&#8217;s <i>Lensman<\/i> series. Many of the reasons why I love it are succinctly expressed in the comments to <a href=\"http:\/\/jordan179.livejournal.com\/30340.html\" target=\"_new\">this other user&#8217;s LJ entry<\/a>, in which <a href=\"http:\/\/jordan179.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">jordan179<\/a> discusses all the SF cliches that Smith practically invented.<\/p>\n<p>One of my favorite comments to the entry is: &#8220;When I read a lot of modern science fiction of the &#8220;doomed to disaster&#8221; variety, I often think that what the characters in the story need is an E. E. &#8220;Doc&#8221; Smith or John W. Campbell Engineer-Hero to come along and knock the problem on its head a few times.&#8221; I talked about this in my &#8220;zombie horror&#8221; entry. Too many SF \/ Fantasy characters these days have already given up, and won&#8217;t even try to <i>do something<\/i> about the horrible situation they&#8217;re in.<\/p>\n<p>This lead me to the following link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.graylensman.com\/fiction\/necropolis.htm\" target=\"_new\">&#8220;The Doom that Came to Necropolis&#8221;<\/a>. Imagine a Cthulhu Mythos story starring a square-jawed man of <b>Science!<\/b> who won&#8217;t be cowed by shadows in the dark&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love E.E. &#8220;Doc&#8221; Smith&#8217;s Lensman series. Many of the reasons why I love it are succinctly expressed in the comments to this other user&#8217;s LJ entry, in which jordan179 discusses all the SF cliches that Smith practically invented. One of my favorite comments to the entry is: &#8220;When I read a lot of modern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[33,24,17],"class_list":["post-652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-philosophy","tag-science","tag-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1xCb9-aw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}