{"id":472,"date":"2010-11-30T22:44:33","date_gmt":"2010-12-01T05:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/?p=472"},"modified":"2019-02-12T19:14:50","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T19:14:50","slug":"john-steakley-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/2010\/11\/john-steakley-rip\/","title":{"rendered":"John Steakley, RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnsteakley.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-473\" title=\"Armor\" src=\"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Armor.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"144\" height=\"246\" \/><\/a>John Steakley, author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Armor-science-fiction-John-Steakley\/dp\/0886773687\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1291180764&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\">Armor <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Vampire-Novel-John-Steakley\/dp\/0451451538\/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1291180764&amp;sr=8-4\" target=\"_blank\">Vampire$<\/a>, as well as quite a few short stories, has passed away after a five year bout with cancer.<\/p>\n<p>I first encountered John Steakley when I read his novel Armor. It&#8217;s a brilliant science fiction piece about a troubled and driven man fighting as a soldier in power armor against an inhuman and terrifying enemy. It&#8217;s also about Jack Crow, a con man, and his marks. The two worlds intersect in fascinating and compelling ways. Brilliant.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been through more than a dozen copies of Armor, re-reading them until they fall apart or loaning them to friends who never return them.<\/p>\n<p>I never met John Steakley, which I regret, and I wish mightily that he had written a few more books.<\/p>\n<p>Godspeed, sir.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Steakley, author of Armor and Vampire$, as well as quite a few short stories, has passed away after a five year bout with cancer. I first encountered John Steakley when I read his novel Armor. It&#8217;s a brilliant science fiction piece about a troubled and driven man fighting as a soldier in power armor &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/2010\/11\/john-steakley-rip\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">John Steakley, RIP<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,17,19,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scientifiction","category-soldiering","category-storytelling","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1262,"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions\/1262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}