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  "archive": "urth",
  "thread": {
    "id": 1661,
    "subject": "Blish's CASE OF CONSCIENCE and Urth",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1999-06-01T15:17:48+00:00",
    "last": "1999-06-01T15:17:48+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0027-0046@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Michael Andre-Driussi",
        "address": "mantis at sirius.com"
      },
      "date": "1999-06-01T15:17:48+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Blish's CASE OF CONSCIENCE and Urth",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
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          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "In the past on this list there have been periodic reference to Blish's\nbook, by three or four people hereabouts.\n\nWell I just read it, myself, and I liked it a lot more than the BLACK\nEASTER books, with which it shares obvious similaries (including, IMHO, a\nweak ending--but now I'm getting ahead of myself).\n\nSo I would like people to take this opportunity to chat about COC, compare\nand contrast with the Urth Cycle.  I know that at least a few of you have\nread it, and most likely many more have, since it is an award winning\n(Hugo, I believe?) classic."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "SPOILER ALERT<<"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Because here is a clear and obvious case of Roman Catholic sf; there is a\ncertain similarity between the Jesuit hero and Severian, in that both must\ndestroy a world; etc.\n\n=mantis="
        }
      ]
    }
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