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  "thread": {
    "id": 1313,
    "subject": "Wolfe surge",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1998-12-24T04:24:00+00:00",
    "last": "1998-12-24T04:24:00+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0022-0062@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "m.driussi",
        "address": "m.driussi at genie.com"
      },
      "date": "1998-12-24T04:24:00+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Wolfe surge",
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      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "Damien Broderick,\n\nI don't know the story \"Children's Hour\" at all.  Somebody around\nhere must.\n\nThanks again for writing up that Suzanne piece!  It was a fun read\nand who knows, maybe it will lure new people into coming onboard.\n\nAnd Everybody,\n\nSeems like a lot of Wolfe stuff has been finding me.  I got a copy of\n\"Nova Express\" the other day, and it is pretty interesting (recent Wolfe\ninterview and an essay on Long Sun).  Among other things, the\nsynchronicity wave catches me again--just last week I was talking\nwith Andy Joron about Avram Davidson's THE PHOENIX AND THE MIRROR\nwhich he had lent to me and I had read.  We were talking about that\nbook, how very Wolfean it seems, not only influencing TBOTNS but also\nthe Soldier series, and we were wondering if somehow Wolfe had not\nread it?  I couldn't remember Wolfe ever mentioning it in any\ninterviews . . . and there it is, in this interview, he mentions\nDavidson and praises his work!  (He doesn't name the book we were\ntalking about, but we know he must have read it.  He =must= have!)\n\nI also found the new SFBC reissue of TBOTNS--has anybody else seen\nthis?  It comes with a poster of the cover, but the really surprising\nthing is they published it in hardcover as one volume!  Yikes!  I\ndidn't buy it, I only marveled at it.\n\nThen today I got a couple of photocopied short stories from psychic\nRobert Borski: \"The Game in the Pope's Head\" which I was looking for\n(and still not finding) as recently as yesterday (it is in the\nanthology RIPPER! by Dozois) and \"The Arimaspian Legacy\" which I\ndon't look for because it is Cheap Street.\n\nRobert is \"psychic\" because I don't remember telling him I hadn't seen\neither, and in his letter he writes he hopes I haven't seen them yet.\n\nAnyway, both stories are gems.\n\nYou are unlikely to ever see \"The Arimaspian Legacy,\" so I won't\ntorture you or ruin anything by saying anything about it.  Except\nthat it is set in the modern world.  Involving two guys, both only\nchildren (that is, no siblings), who became best friends in some\nunnamed town that has grown a lot since then.  And one of them is\ntelling the story about the other one.  This story is in the Wolfe\ntradition of \"The Monday Man,\" and BIBLIOMEN, and others.\n\nOTOH, \"The Game in the Pope's Head\" is in the Wolfe tradition of\n\"Melting,\" \"Beech Hill,\" and other mindwarping semi-psychedelic\nwhirlwinds.  I won't say anything until Wombat reads it--I think he\nwill get an especial kick out of it.\n\n=mantis="
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