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  "thread": {
    "id": 7,
    "subject": "Gene Wolfe's \"Book of the New Sun\"",
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      "message_id": "<sflovers-v6-89-3@digest.sf-lovers>",
      "from": {
        "name": "John Redford",
        "address": "vlsi at dec-marlboro"
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      "date": null,
      "subject": "Gene Wolfe's \"Book of the New Sun\"",
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          "text": "The third book in the series is \"The Sword of the Lictor\", and not\n\"The Citadel of the Autaurch\", as was previously reported.  TCotA is\nthe fourth (and last) book.  \"The Sword of the Lictor\" is out in\nhardback, and should be out in paperback in a matter of weeks; I saw a\nsample cover for it in the Science Fantasy bookstore in Cambridge.  I\nrecommend it.  Our torturer-hero, Severian, is once again forced to\nflee for committing the crime of mercy.  He loses his second love,\nmeets his first (in monstrous form), and confronts aliens\n(\"cacogens\"), a king and a giant.  Like a lot of Wolfe's words, \n\"lictor\" sounds made-up, but isn't.  It means \"a Roman officer who\nbears the fasces as the insignia of his office\", i.e. an enforcer."
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