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    "id": 31,
    "subject": "Macavoy, Gene Wolfe",
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    "first": "1984-01-11T10:23:31+00:00",
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      "date": "1984-01-11T10:23:31+00:00",
      "subject": "Macavoy, Gene Wolfe",
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          "text": "(Caro.PA at PARC-MAXC.ARPA) I liked Tea With the Black Dragon very\nmuch, but I thought the writing was only mediocre (compensated for,\nin my opinion, by the quality of the characters and concepts; plot\nwas also pretty vanilla).  All in all, a very satisfactory first\nnovel.\n\nNow, Damiano may not have any flaws.  I can't think of any.  I find\nthis particularly pleasing because of the increase in writing skill\nfrom first to second novel (of course, I don't know when either book\nwas actually WRITTEN, just when they were published).\n\n(duntemann.wbst at PARC-MAXC.ARPA) Actually, Castle of the Otter is a\nbook containing a collection of essays by Wolfe about the writing of\nBook of the New Sun, and it's out now (it has been an SFBC\nselection).  The title comes from an interesting sequence -- Locus\nmistakenly reported that the last volume of Book of the New Sun\nwould be called Castle of the Otter (it's actually Citadel of the\nAutarch -- I presume Locus got its information verbally in this\ncase).  Gene Wolfe liked the title, so he used it."
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