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  "thread": {
    "id": 87,
    "subject": "Gene Wolfe's _Soldier of the Mist_: sequels?",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "1991-02-07T03:59:51+00:00",
    "last": "1991-02-12T21:52:26+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<sflovers-v16-63-7@digest.sf-lovers>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Eric SASSAMAN",
        "address": "microsoft!ericsa at beaver.cs.washington.edu"
      },
      "date": "1991-02-07T03:59:51+00:00",
      "subject": "Gene Wolfe's _Soldier of the Mist_: sequels?",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
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          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Anyone have any opinions on the sequels to Gene Wolfe's _Soldier of the\nMist_? Are they as good as _Soldier_?\n\nEric Sassaman"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<sflovers-v16-63-8@digest.sf-lovers>",
      "from": {
        "name": "MATT AUSTERN",
        "address": "austern at csa2.lbl.gov"
      },
      "date": "1991-02-12T21:52:26+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: Gene Wolfe's _Soldier of the Mist_: sequels?",
      "in_reply_to": "<sflovers-v16-63-7@digest.sf-lovers>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
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          "text": "ericsa at microsoft.UUCP (Eric SASSAMAN) writes:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Anyone have any opinions on the sequels to Gene Wolfe's _Soldier of the\nMist_? Are they as good as _Soldier_?"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "There is only one sequel to Soldier of the Mist, called Soldier of Arete.\nI understand that Wolfe plans to write at least one more, but I could be\nmistaken about that.\n\nSoldier of Arete disappointed me.  I certainly do still recommend it: it\nstill has the dense, careful prose that one expects from Wolfe, and the\nsame slightly alien view of the world that Soldier of the Mist had.  Still,\nit just didn't seem to me to have the same coherence.\n\nI would almost call Soldier of Arete sloppy (at least by the standard of\nother Wolfe): characters and plot elements appeared and disappeared for no\nreason that was apparent to me, and it didn't seem to me that the book\nreally went anywhere.  What happened to the theme in Soldier of the Mist,\nof Latro's sin against Hecate and his attempt at restitution?\n\nOf course, if Wolfe really does plan to write a sequel, it could be that\nit's wrong to judge the coherence of Soldier of Arete in isolation.\n\nMatthew Austern"
        }
      ]
    }
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