{"id":10158,"date":"2013-03-08T18:25:32","date_gmt":"2013-03-09T00:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=10158"},"modified":"2013-03-08T18:36:04","modified_gmt":"2013-03-09T00:36:04","slug":"the-good-the-bad-and-the-utley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=10158","title":{"rendered":"The Good, the Bad, and the Utley"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lots of health-related news for the science fiction community, so I thought I would roll it up into a single post here.<\/p>\n

The good news: Jay Lake is currently free of detectable tumors<\/a>. As Jay notes, this is quite different than being cured, but beats the alternative. Indeed, his optimism is so guarded as to be indistinguishable from pessimism. “No one knows what will work for me, and none of the choices are all that likely to pay off anyway.” He’s still waiting for the full results of the DNA scan<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The bad news: SF writer, editor, and publisher and pioneering rock critic Paul Williams is in a hospice<\/a>. Williams is suffering from early onset dementia brought about as a side effect of his 1995 bicycle accident. There’s a donation page<\/a> to help his family. Williams was also executor for the Philip K. Dick estate for a number of years, but that’s now handled by the Philip K. Dick Trust<\/a>. I think I may have met Williams, very briefly, at the 2006 Anaheim Worldcon, but I’m not sure. <\/p>\n

And now a few Steven Utley memorials:<\/p>\n

  • Here’s a great tribute to Utley from a paleontologist<\/a>.\n
  • A bit from Jayme Blaschke<\/a>, including links to all of Utley’s stories that appeared on RevSF.\n
  • Utley’s under-utilized commemoration book<\/a>.<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Lots of health-related news for the science fiction community, so I thought I would roll it up into a single post here. The good news: Jay Lake is currently free of detectable tumors. As Jay notes, this is quite different than being cured, but beats the alternative. Indeed, his optimism is so guarded as to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1542,350,1579,86,1970,1541],"class_list":["post-10158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-fiction","tag-cancer","tag-jay-lake","tag-paul-williams","tag-philip-k-dick","tag-science-fiction","tag-steven-utley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10158"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10172,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10158\/revisions\/10172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}