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  "thread": {
    "id": 111,
    "subject": "Gene Wolfe: Nightside the Long Sun",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "1993-03-23T15:09:53+00:00",
    "last": "1993-03-23T15:57:04+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<sflovers-v18-209-12@digest.sf-lovers>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Laurence R. Brothers",
        "address": "quasar at flash.bellcore.com"
      },
      "date": "1993-03-23T15:09:53+00:00",
      "subject": "Gene Wolfe: Nightside the Long Sun",
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          "text": "I just purchased and read the latest Gene Wolfe opus \"Nightside the Long\nSun\".\n\nThe cover blurb babbles about it being more in the \"Book of the New Sun\"\nworld. It may well be in the same universe (well, the same multiverse :-),\nbut don't worry about it succumbing to sequelitis...\n\nIn this book at least, the only real identification with the former series\nwas Wolfe's gimmick of using dislocated modifications of usages from other\nlanguages for the names of culturally signicant concepts, places, and\nthings. This time, though there are multiple sources, the primary source\nfor the local culture seems to be a sort of modification of Spanish usages.\n\nThe book really has nothing whatsoever to do with the \"Book of the New Sun\"\nworld, plot, or characters, so far as I can tell.\n\nWithout giving anything away, let me just say that I liked it a lot; it's\nthe best book of the year so far as I'm concerned. I should also add that I\nread it in about 3 hours. If I can find any flaw at all in Wolfe's style\nover the course of his career, it's that some of his writing is difficult\nto read; its intricacy can make it a little tough on the reader. I still\nhaven't figured out some of the stories in \"The Isle of Doctor Death and\nOther Stories and Other Stories\", much as I like the title. However, I\nfound \"Nightside the Long Sun\" completely lucid and pellucid... A true\npleasure to read.\n\nOne caveat: even more so than the books in the \"Book of the New Sun\", this\nbook is really just an episode in a larger multi-book novel.  Don't expect\na full resolution of the plot by the end. On the other hand, don't avoid\nthe book for that reason; it's not as if it ends on a cliffhanger.\n\nLaurence R. Brothers\nBellcore\nComputer Graphics and Interactive Media"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<sflovers-v18-209-13@digest.sf-lovers>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Dan Rabin",
        "address": "rabin at cs.yale.edu"
      },
      "date": "1993-03-23T15:57:04+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: Gene Wolfe: Nightside the Long Sun",
      "in_reply_to": "<sflovers-v18-209-12@digest.sf-lovers>",
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          "text": "I concur with Laurence R. Brothers's favorable report on Gene Wolfe's new\n_Nightside the Long Sun_, and congratulate him on his reading speed: 333\npages in 3 hours!  It took me more like 8 hours.\n\nGene Wolfe followers will probably like this one.  The third-person\nnarrative is very clean and readable, and Wolfe's impeccably timed\nrationing of background information is much in evidence.\n\nCan't wait for the next one.\n\nDan Rabin"
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