{"id":23565,"date":"2011-11-08T21:15:24","date_gmt":"2011-11-09T04:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/08\/this-is-sci-fi.html"},"modified":"2014-11-06T08:02:06","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T15:02:06","slug":"this-is-sci-fi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/08\/this-is-sci-fi.html","title":{"rendered":"This is Sci Fi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I loved John Berkey&#39;s work &#8212; the first two illustrations here from Star Wars (the Original) are iconic to me, and I had several other SF books over the years that he did cover art to.  #ddtb<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.howtobearetronaut.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2011%2F11%2F355-520x866.jpg%3F9d7bd4' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/HowToBeARetronaut\/~3\/99pK-kn-d5w\/'>Sci Fi Illustrations by John BerkeySci Fi Illustrations by John Berkey<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t&#39;John Berkey\u00a0(1932 \u2013 2008) was an artist known for his space and\u00a0science fiction-themed works. Some of Berkey&#39;s best-known work includes much of the\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I loved John Berkey&#39;s work &#8212; the first two illustrations here from Star Wars (the Original) are iconic to me, and I had several other SF books over the years that he did cover art to. #ddtb Embedded Link Sci Fi Illustrations by John BerkeySci Fi Illustrations by John Berkey &#39;John Berkey\u00a0(1932 \u2013 2008) was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/08\/this-is-sci-fi.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;This is Sci Fi&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,36,66,41,372],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-23565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-books","category-media-art","category-media-movies","category-star-wars-media-movies","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":25856,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/01\/some-pig.html","url_meta":{"origin":23565,"position":0},"title":"Some Pig","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 1-Feb-12 7:44am","format":false,"excerpt":"I've always loved the Williams illustrations for Charlotte's Web. #ddtb Embedded Link Original \u2018Charlotte\u2019s Web\u2019 Illustrations, 1952 ... 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