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  "thread": {
    "id": 93,
    "subject": "G.Wolfe _Shadow of the Torturer_",
    "messages": 3,
    "voices": 3,
    "first": "1991-07-22T18:51:04+00:00",
    "last": "1991-07-23T18:04:07+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<sflovers-v16-325-12@digest.sf-lovers>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Sci Eng Library",
        "address": "scilib at nowalls.ucsd.edu"
      },
      "date": "1991-07-22T18:51:04+00:00",
      "subject": "G.Wolfe _Shadow of the Torturer_",
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          "text": "I'm nearly finished reading Wolfe's SOTT and just noticed that it says\n\"Volume One of The Book of the New Sun\".  Does this mean it goes on (an\non)?  Is our main main Severian going to adventure his way through ___ more\nbooks?  PLEASE, will someone let me know the titles?  Thanks!\n\nD.Ellis\nscilib@ucsd"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<sflovers-v16-325-13@digest.sf-lovers>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Janet M. Lafler",
        "address": "repnomar at leland.stanford.edu"
      },
      "date": "1991-07-23T16:49:22+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: G.Wolfe _Shadow of the Torturer_",
      "in_reply_to": "<sflovers-v16-325-12@digest.sf-lovers>",
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          "text": "scilib at NOWALLS.UCSD.EDU writes:"
        },
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          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "I'm nearly finished reading Wolfe's SOTT and just noticed that it says\n\"Volume One of The Book of the New Sun\".  Does this mean it goes on (an\non)?  Is our main main Severian going to adventure his way through ___\nmore books?  PLEASE, will someone let me know the titles?  Thanks!"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "One of the main features of Wolfe's narrative style is that his stories go\non and on beyond the point you could reasonably expect them to.  If you\nlike his tricks, he's great.\n\nThere are four books in the series, _The Shadow of the Torturer_, _The Claw\nof the Conciliator_, _The Sword of the Lictor_ and _The Citadel of the\nAutarch_.  There is also a companion volume, _The Urth of the New Sun_,\nwhich I haven't read but have been reliably informed is awful.  That's all\nthe books there are in the series; I think we can count on him not to write\nany more.\n\nEnjoy.\n\nJanet"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<sflovers-v16-325-14@digest.sf-lovers>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Matt Austern",
        "address": "matt at physics16.berkeley.edu"
      },
      "date": "1991-07-23T18:04:07+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: G.Wolfe _Shadow of the Torturer_",
      "in_reply_to": "<sflovers-v16-325-13@digest.sf-lovers>",
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          "text": "repnomar at leland.Stanford.EDU (Janet M. Lafler) writes:"
        },
        {
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          "depth": 1,
          "text": "There are four books in the series, _The Shadow of the Torturer_, _The\nClaw of the Conciliator_, _The Sword of the Lictor_ and _The Citadel of\nthe Autarch_.  There is also a companion volume, _The Urth of the New\nSun_, which I haven't read but have been reliably informed is awful.\nThat's all the books there are in the series; I think we can count on him\nnot to write any more."
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          "text": "Awful? Gene Wolfe?  Them there's fightin' words.  The Urth of the New Sun\ncertainly isn't as good as The Book of the New Sun, but a book could be\nmuch worse than The Book of the New Sun and still be very good indeed.\nUrth of the New Sun still has the calm voice and meticulous craftsmanship\nand sense of inevitability that I find characteristic of Wolfe's writing.\n\nActually, I don't think I would call The Book of the New Sun a series, or a\ntetrology, so much as a four-volume novel.  (And I would call The Urth of\nthe New Sun a sequel.)\n\nMatt Austern\naustern at lbl.bitnet"
        }
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