{"id":3216,"date":"2024-01-20T16:03:35","date_gmt":"2024-01-21T00:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=3216"},"modified":"2024-01-20T16:03:35","modified_gmt":"2024-01-21T00:03:35","slug":"review-the-best-of-richard-matheson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=3216","title":{"rendered":"Review: The Best of Richard Matheson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Richard Matheson made his name writing short stories and novellas that looked at genre standards with a modern eye.  The unexpected turns those took made them both standards in SF magazines of the day and the basis for many a Twilight Zone episode.  I saw a collection at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lapl.org\/\">LAPL<\/a> and decided to have a look.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The man deserves his reputation.  The stories are well crafted and clever.  It&#8217;s easy to see how these stories both delighted readers and inspired later writers to play with different perspectives on old tropes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They are a product of their time.  I wouldn&#8217;t want to be a woman in a Matheson world.  While I can be frustrated that a writer who can generate sympathy for the Devil would still have Satan&#8217;s wife doing the dishes, I still recognize the craft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Matheson made his name writing short stories and novellas that looked at genre standards with a modern eye. The unexpected turns those took made them both standards in SF magazines of the day and the basis for many a Twilight Zone episode. I saw a collection at the LAPL and decided to have a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3217,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3216\/revisions\/3217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}