{"id":7364,"date":"2020-05-11T13:42:20","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T17:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/?p=7364"},"modified":"2020-05-12T11:13:24","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T15:13:24","slug":"339n-who-is-the-author-begins-with-stephen-not-king-or-crane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/339n-who-is-the-author-begins-with-stephen-not-king-or-crane\/","title":{"rendered":"339N: Who is the author? Begins with Stephen&#8230;not King or Crane (Solved!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I am recalling an early short story writer, from the 1930s and 1940s, he wasn&#8217;t known as a science fiction author but wrote a piece of science fiction about a take over of the world by machines. They weren&#8217;t AI or anything that sophisticated. No microprocessors. The takeover included automobiles and even irons and vacuum cleaners. The machines just revolted. I think that the story was told by a person in an enclosed room waiting to die, telling his tale. The writer&#8217;s first name was Stephen. My parents had a copy of &#8220;The Complete Works of Stephen&#8230;.&#8221; or &#8220;The Collected Works of Stephen&#8230;.&#8221; but I can&#8217;t remember his last name. Does anyone who it might be? I believe he also wrote some poetry included in the set.\u00a0 I think there were two volumes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am recalling an early short story writer, from the 1930s and 1940s, he wasn&#8217;t known as a science fiction author but wrote a piece of science fiction about a take over of the world by machines. They weren&#8217;t AI or anything that sophisticated. No microprocessors. The takeover included automobiles and even irons and vacuum [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,8,24,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7364"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7364"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7369,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7364\/revisions\/7369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}