{"id":140,"date":"2005-12-29T09:53:04","date_gmt":"2005-12-29T17:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/wordpress\/?p=140"},"modified":"2005-12-29T09:53:04","modified_gmt":"2005-12-29T17:53:04","slug":"more-sheckley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/29\/more-sheckley\/","title":{"rendered":"More Sheckley"},"content":{"rendered":"

I got a nice comment on my Sheckley appreciation<\/a> from Martin Olson, who has a wonderful and touching eulogy eulogy<\/a> of the Sheckman in a thread on Making Light<\/i>, which is a blog run by Patrick & Teresa Nielsen Hayden. Marty also reminded me about the www.sheckley.com<\/a> site, and I’m right now downloading a one-hour talk-show video from there.<\/p>\n

Marty mentioned something I’d forgotten; I worked a Sheckley-like short-short story about one “Boba Shekk” into my transreal futurological novel Saucer Wisdom<\/a><\/i>. It's about a somewhat shecked-out writer who makes two “ohmie” clones of himself so as to be able to satisfy the demands of a Hollywood contract. He spreads his personality as a virus that gives him a cold; that is, to transfer himself, he sneezes on two tank-grown clones. [Here’s my illo for the episode, and a quote. As I recall, I drew the illo first, then thought it slightly resembled Bob, and then decided to give my character a variant of his name.]<\/p>\n

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“Your personality is like a disease they're catching?” says Etsuko. “Your memories? What if you went out into a crowd?”<\/p>\n

“It would be a beautiful thing, wouldn't it,” says Shekk, grinning and loudly blowing his nose. “Gesundheit, baby.”<\/i><\/p>\n

The little story is dark and satirical — one of the clones convinces Boba that he<\/i> was the clone. I do imagine Bob would have gotten a kick out of the homage. But I confess to not having checked it with him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I got a nice comment on my Sheckley appreciation from Martin Olson, who has a wonderful and touching eulogy eulogy of the Sheckman in a thread on Making Light, which is a blog run by Patrick & Teresa Nielsen Hayden. Marty also reminded me about the www.sheckley.com site, and I’m right now downloading a one-hour […]<\/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-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}