{"id":369,"date":"2017-11-04T19:33:55","date_gmt":"2017-11-05T00:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lfs.org\/blog\/?p=369"},"modified":"2019-08-17T21:13:21","modified_gmt":"2019-08-18T02:13:21","slug":"eric-kotani-has-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/eric-kotani-has-died\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Eric Kotani’ has died"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Science fiction writer Eric Kotani\u00a0 has died. His novel The Island Worlds<\/em>, co-written with John Maddox Roberts and published in 1987, was a finalist in 2016 <\/a>for the Prometheus Hall of Fame Award.<\/p>\n

The name “Eric Kotani” actually was a pen name for American astrophysicist Yoji Kondo, who was born in Japan.<\/p>\n

See this excellent obituary in the Baltimore Sun.<\/a>\u00a0 Some highlights: Kondo wanted to see the world, so he learned Portuguese, which allowed him to obtain a job in Brazil. He eventually moved to the U.S., earning a Ph.D. in astrophysics. He then worked for NASA and held various academic jobs.<\/p>\n

When Robert Heinlein asked him questions about astronomy, the two became friends, and Kondo began his second career as a science fiction writer, collaborating with Roberts on a series of novels and also writing a Star Trek novel, Death of a Neutron Star<\/em>, on his own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Science fiction writer Eric Kotani\u00a0 has died. His novel The Island Worlds, co-written with John Maddox Roberts and published in 1987, was a finalist in 2016 for the Prometheus Hall of Fame Award. The name “Eric Kotani” actually was a pen name for American astrophysicist Yoji Kondo, who was born in Japan. See this excellent … Continue reading ‘Eric Kotani’ has died<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[32,30,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-updates","category-obit","category-memorial-tributes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pe8nGl-5X","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":371,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions\/371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}