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  "thread": {
    "id": 24,
    "subject": "Gene Wolfe",
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    "first": "1982-02-09T16:54:00+00:00",
    "last": "1982-02-09T16:54:00+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<sflovers-v5-21-6@digest.sf-lovers>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Spratt.Multics",
        "address": "spratt.multics"
      },
      "date": "1982-02-09T16:54:00+00:00",
      "subject": "Gene Wolfe",
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          "text": "For those who are unaware, Gene Wolfe does write mainstream fiction.\nThe book I've read is called \"Peace\" and is a bizarre set of\nreminiscences by an old(?) man dying from a stroke.  A beautiful book.\n\nNot all of Wolfe's stories play with the reader in an explicit\nfashion.  In \"The Devil in a Forest\" he stays pretty well within the\nbounds of normal historical fiction.  Except that the events related\nin the story have no particular significance, historically.\n\nCertainly Wolfe is concerned with writing books of extremely high\n\"literary technical\" quality.  He succeeds at this so well and so\nconsistently that one can't seriously posit it happens by accident.\nPerhaps this concern stems from a desire to be noticed by literary\ncritics, perhaps not.  Whatever the motivation, I'm deeply grateful\nthat someone of his ability is producing works I so enjoy and at the\nsame time he is expanding the limits of the genre of science fiction."
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