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  "thread": {
    "id": 120,
    "subject": "Gene Wolfe review:",
    "messages": 4,
    "voices": 4,
    "first": "1994-04-06T00:11:16+00:00",
    "last": "1994-04-07T05:22:52+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<sflovers-v19-267-9@digest.sf-lovers>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Dennis Carlyle",
        "address": "dennis_carlyle at amsbbs.bc.ca"
      },
      "date": "1994-04-06T00:11:16+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: Gene Wolfe review:",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
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          "text": "Wolfe's prose remains fine and precise. There's a temptation to remark\nthat it contains fewer of the deep notes, the magical resonances and\nironies that throb through the original _Book_ ...  but many of those\nmoments of the _Book_ went unrecognized or half- understood until the\nentire work was available for rereading as a whole. _The Book of the Long\nSun_ remains maddeningly incomplete."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Thanks for the well-written review.  Do you know of any serious literary\ncriticism of Gene Wolfe?  I hear that Ursula Le Guin is, or has, put\ntogether a book of critical studies of SF, and I would be surprised if\nWolfe was not covered in some form in such a volume.\n\nDennis Carlyle\nVancouver, Canada\nDennis_Carlyle at amsbbs.bc.ca"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<sflovers-v19-267-10@digest.sf-lovers>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Gareth Rees",
        "address": "gdr11 at cl.cam.ac.uk"
      },
      "date": "1994-04-06T10:02:32+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: Gene Wolfe review:",
      "in_reply_to": "<sflovers-v19-267-9@digest.sf-lovers>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
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          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Dennis Carlyle writes:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Do you know of any serious literary criticism of Gene Wolfe?"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "There's considerable discussion of 'The Book of the New Sun' and various\nexciting questions like, \"Who was Severian's mother?\" in John Clute's\ncollection of essays and reviews, 'Strokes'.\n\nThere's a chapter on 'The Fifth Head of Cerberus' in Albert Wendland's\nstudy of the uses of scientific accuracy and plausibility in sf 'Science,\nmyth and the fictional creation of alien worlds'.\n\nGareth Rees"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<sflovers-v19-267-11@digest.sf-lovers>",
      "from": {
        "name": "P Nielsen Hayden",
        "address": "pnh at panix.com"
      },
      "date": "1994-04-07T01:28:36+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: Gene Wolfe review:",
      "in_reply_to": "<sflovers-v19-267-10@digest.sf-lovers>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
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          "kind": "text",
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          "text": "Dennis_Carlyle at amsbbs.bc.ca (Dennis Carlyle) writes:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Do you know of any serious literary criticism of Gene Wolfe?"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "There's been a fair bit, notably in FOUNDATION and the frequently awful\n(but quite serious) SCIENCE-FICTION STUDIES.  John Clute is editing, for\nSerconia Press, a volume of essays about Wolfe by various academics and\npracticing critics.\n\nPatrick Nielsen Hayden\nsenior editor\nTor Books"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<sflovers-v19-267-13@digest.sf-lovers>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Mark T Pitcavage",
        "address": "mpitcava at magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu"
      },
      "date": "1994-04-07T05:22:52+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: Gene Wolfe review:",
      "in_reply_to": "<sflovers-v19-267-11@digest.sf-lovers>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Dennis Carlyle <Dennis_Carlyle at amsbbs.bc.ca> wrote:\nDo you know of any serious literary criticism of Gene Wolfe?"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "There is the 1986 _Gene Wolfe_ by Joan Gordon."
        }
      ]
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