{"id":17643,"date":"2018-10-02T20:17:41","date_gmt":"2018-10-02T17:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=17643"},"modified":"2018-10-02T20:17:41","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T17:17:41","slug":"sherlock-holmes-and-science-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2018\/10\/02\/sherlock-holmes-and-science-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Sherlock Holmes and Science Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Restored hi-res artwork by Tom Walker, originally split across two pages for the short article &#8220;Sherlock Holmes and Science Fiction&#8221;, <em>New Frontiers<\/em> fanzine, August 1960.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/tom_walker_1960.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/tom_walker_1960.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"382\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-17644\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It trailed a forthcoming anthology book titled <em>The Science-fictional Sherlock Holmes<\/em>, which had the same illustration on its cover and which now appears to be rather rare and collectable&#8230; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/affiliates.abebooks.com\/c\/1298803\/366626\/2029?prodsku=online%3Aen%3AUS%3Abi%3A%2022762193629&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.abebooks.com%2Fservlet%2FBookDetailsPL%3Fbi%3D22762193629%26cm_mmc%3Dgmc-_-nonisbn-_-PLA-_-v01\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pictures.abebooks.com\/KATKEL\/22762193629.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/scifisherlock.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/scifisherlock.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"221\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-17645\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The authors apparently &#8220;Knew Their Stuff about the Holmes conventions and respected them&#8221; according to one reviewer, in contrast to later anthology plumpers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Restored hi-res artwork by Tom Walker, originally split across two pages for the short article &#8220;Sherlock Holmes and Science Fiction&#8221;, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2018\/10\/02\/sherlock-holmes-and-science-fiction\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-odd-scratchings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}