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  "thread": {
    "id": 1588,
    "subject": "underrated/overrated",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1999-04-28T09:53:00+00:00",
    "last": "1999-04-28T09:53:00+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0026-0043@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Peter Stephenson",
        "address": "pws at ibmth.df.unipi.it"
      },
      "date": "1999-04-28T09:53:00+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) underrated/overrated",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "At least there's no danger of Wolfe being underrated on this list.\n\nI can't agree about Asimov being overrated, though.  Books like `The End of\nEternity' and `The Caves of Steel' are not just full of ideas, they're also\nvery good examples of how to write a novel.  (Actually, I've been trying to\nclassify time travel in `End of Eternity' in the way proposed by the site\nMantis pointed out last week, and I've decided I can't, but that's an\nentirely separate matter.)  As for most overrated *fantasy* writer... where\ndo I start?  (No comment on rock music.)\n\nI've a suspicion this way of looking at things is particularly open to\npersonal bugbears rather than deep consideration.  But at least they got\none thing right.\n\ncorncrake"
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