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    "note": "Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright in each message remains with the person who wrote it.  Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact.",
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  "thread": {
    "id": 1517,
    "subject": "Malacia",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "1999-04-12T08:55:12+00:00",
    "last": "1999-04-12T12:01:05+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0025-0049@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Damien Broderick",
        "address": "damien at ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au"
      },
      "date": "1999-04-12T12:01:05+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Malacia",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "Nick Gevers suggested:\n\n< what about Brian Aldiss' THE MALACIA TAPESTRY, which was published in\nthe mid-1970s? >\n\nJonathan Cape, 1976, but at least some of its parts were earlier, perhaps\nin Damon Knight's notable Orbit original sf anthologies.\n\n< hero, whose name is Perian (!) >\n\nStill more (!), in the stories - alas, I've never read them -  I believe\nhis name was Prian.\n\n< Aldiss told\nCharles Platt (in THE DREAM MAKERS) that he was planning a Malacia\nsequel; then Wolfe's Book appeared, and Aldiss did THE HELLICONIA\nTRILOGY instead, as if TBotNS had pre-empted his Malacia scheme, >\n\nBrian once told me that the book simply didn't sell well enough to justify\nthe planned sequels.  I wept and tore my garment and swore that it was the\nfinest book he'd ever written, and urged him to put art above mere filthy\nlucre, but the man had a family and mansion to support and had to be\nrealistic.  The (rather sluggish) coincidence with BOTNS was just that, I\nthink.\n\nDamien "
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0025-0051@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Peter Westlake",
        "address": "peter at harlequin.co.uk"
      },
      "date": "1999-04-12T08:55:12+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) Malacia",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0025-0049@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
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          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "At 12:01 1999-04-12 +0000, you wrote:\n..."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "< Aldiss told\nCharles Platt (in THE DREAM MAKERS) that he was planning a Malacia\nsequel; then Wolfe's Book appeared, and Aldiss did THE HELLICONIA\nTRILOGY instead, as if TBotNS had pre-empted his Malacia scheme, >\n\nBrian once told me that the book simply didn't sell well enough to justify\nthe planned sequels.  I wept and tore my garment"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "A reasonable and considered response. I would do the same, but\nit ought to wait till I leave the office, and you lose a lot of\nthe spontaneity that way. But I shall certainly wail and gnash\nmy teeth. And growl a lot."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "and swore that it was the\nfinest book he'd ever written,"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "By a long way ..."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "and urged him to put art above mere filthy\nlucre, but the man had a family and mansion to support and had to be\nrealistic.  The (rather sluggish) coincidence with BOTNS was just that, I\nthink."
        },
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          "text": "Helliconia and later works ought to have lined the coffers somewhat.\nI wonder if there might be room for a spot of art now or in the future?\n\nSBear.\n\nP.S. On the other paw, _The Malacia Tapestry_ is so good, we\nwouldn't want him to spoil it."
        }
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