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  "thread": {
    "id": 16,
    "subject": "Gene Wolfe\"s \"The Fifth Head of Cerberus\"",
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      "message_id": "<sflovers-v8-113-5@digest.sf-lovers>",
      "from": {
        "name": "decvax!yale-com!leichter",
        "address": "decvax!yale-com!leichter@ucb-vax"
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      "date": null,
      "subject": "Re: Gene Wolfe\"s \"The Fifth Head of Cerberus\"",
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          "text": "\"The Fifth Head of Cerberus\" consists of three stories, each of\nwhich could more or less stand alone - the second, with the same title\nas the book, was originally published as a novella.  (I read it in one\nof Terry Carr's collections; I don't know where else it might have\nappeared.)  The stories take place on one of two twin colony worlds;\ntheir common thread is a single character, a visiting Earth scientist,\nwho is an incidental character in the first story - come to think of\nit, I guess THAT's the previously published one, the narrator of the\nsecond (which is actually a retelling of a myth told by the\nconjectural (? - but the reason for the \"?\" is deep in the story)\nnative residents of one of the planets, and the central character in\nthe third.\n\n     The book develops slowly.  If you really want to get the absolute\nmost out of the first story, read it a little bit at a time over a\nmatter of a couple of days.\n\n     Overall, it's a marvelous book.  It's beautifully written, much\nof it being in Wolfe's typical \"take some hackneyed style and do\nsomething totally unexpected with it\".  Thus, the first story is very\nmuch in the Gothic tradition - terrible family secret, etc.\n\n     By all means, give it a read.\n\n                                    -- Jerry"
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