{"id":3628,"date":"2003-10-30T10:57:57","date_gmt":"2003-10-30T10:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=3628"},"modified":"2003-10-30T10:57:57","modified_gmt":"2003-10-30T10:57:57","slug":"rip_hal_clement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=3628","title":{"rendered":"RIP Hal Clement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last last night I read on a mailing list that Hal Clement had died, and I found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.locusmag.com\/2003\/News\/10_Clement.html\">confirmation of it this morning<\/a>.  Somewhere I have a book of his stories published as &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sff.net\/people\/hal-clement\/hcpubs.html#best\">The Best of Hal Clement<\/a>&#8216;.  I probably still have it sitting around in a box someplace.  But I really enjoyed his SF.  So here&#8217;s a big thank you going out to him for his work.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Hal Clement Dies<\/h3>\n<p>Harry Clement Stubbs, who wrote science fiction as Hal Clement, died in his sleep earlier today, October 29, 2003, at his home in Milton, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p>Born in 1922, Clement was a high school school teacher whose fiction gained a reputation as quintessential hard SF &#8212; science fiction firmly based on established physics, chemistry, and astronomy. His novels often depicted highly imagined alien worlds; the most famous was Mission of Gravity, set on a heavy, fast-spinning planet where the force of gravity is several times greater at the poles than at the equator. His last novel, Noise, was published earlier this year. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.locusmag.com\/2003\/News\/10_Clement.html\">Locus online<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The SFWA has has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfwa.org\/News\/halclement.htm\">bit more information<\/a> on him, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hal_Clement\">as does the Wikipedia<\/a> (updated already amazingly).  I may have to pick up his most recent book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last last night I read on a mailing list that Hal Clement had died, and I found confirmation of it this morning. Somewhere I have a book of his stories published as &#8216;The Best of Hal Clement&#8216;. I probably still have it sitting around in a box someplace. But I really enjoyed his SF. So [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}