{"id":385,"date":"2007-08-23T08:08:33","date_gmt":"2007-08-23T12:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=385"},"modified":"2007-08-23T08:13:50","modified_gmt":"2007-08-23T12:13:50","slug":"the-seminal-status-of-ee-doc-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=385","title":{"rendered":"The Seminal Status of E.E. &#8220;Doc&#8221; Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a neat look at some of the &#8220;cliches&#8221; that originated with Smith&#8217;s <I>Lensman<\/I> stuff.  As the author notes, they didn&#8217;t become cliches until everybody started copying his ideas.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Smith was one the first science fiction writers to see that there was, inherent in sapience, the possibility of a peaceful resolution to the struggle for survival between species, and was most certainly the first science fiction writer to make this the theme of a major work.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/jordan179.livejournal.com\/30340.html\">Link<\/A> <I>(via <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.cynical-c.com\/\">Cynical-C<\/A>)<\/I><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a neat look at some of the &#8220;cliches&#8221; that originated with Smith&#8217;s Lensman stuff. As the author notes, they didn&#8217;t become cliches until everybody started copying his ideas. Smith was one the first science fiction writers to see that there was, inherent in sapience, the possibility of a peaceful resolution to the struggle for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}