{"id":27378,"date":"2012-08-15T10:49:37","date_gmt":"2012-08-15T09:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=27378"},"modified":"2012-08-15T16:07:48","modified_gmt":"2012-08-15T15:07:48","slug":"stainless-steel-rat-author-harry-harrison-has-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/stainless-steel-rat-author-harry-harrison-has-died\/","title":{"rendered":"Stainless Steel Rat author Harry Harrison has died"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_27379\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27379\" style=\"width: 616px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/The-Stainless-Steel-Rat-Gets-Drafted.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27379\" title=\"The Stainless Steel Rat Gets Drafted\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/The-Stainless-Steel-Rat-Gets-Drafted.jpg\" alt=\"The Stainless Steel Rat Gets Drafted\" width=\"616\" height=\"521\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/The-Stainless-Steel-Rat-Gets-Drafted.jpg 616w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/The-Stainless-Steel-Rat-Gets-Drafted-300x254.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-27379\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The cover of 1987&#8217;s The Stainless Steel Rat Gets Drafted<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Harry Harrison, best known for his incredible 12-book <em>Stainless Steel Rat<\/em> series of comic science fiction, the brilliantly satirical six-book <em>Bill, The Galactic Hero<\/em> series, and <em>Make Room! Make Room!<\/em> which was the basis for the 1973 Charlton Heston-starring movie <em>Soylent Green<\/em>, died on 15 August 2012, aged 87,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.harryharrison.com\/\">according to his official website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A prolific author, he started his writing career in the 1958 writing the <em>Flash Gordon<\/em> newspaper strip and published his first novel, <em>Deathworld<\/em>, in 1960<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>His last <em>Stainless Steel Rat<\/em> novel, the <em>Stainless Steel Rat Returns<\/em>, was released in 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soylent Green, Bill, The Galactic Hero and Stainless Steel Rat author Harry Harrison dead at 87.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":27379,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[1624,3],"tags":[1981,2729,2730],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/The-Stainless-Steel-Rat-Gets-Drafted.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27378"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}