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  "thread": {
    "id": 1670,
    "subject": "Digest urth.v027.n016",
    "messages": 1,
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    "first": "1999-06-08T00:29:06+00:00",
    "last": "1999-06-08T00:29:06+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0027-0067@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "David Duffy",
        "address": "davidd at qimr.edu.au"
      },
      "date": "1999-06-08T00:29:06+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Re: Digest urth.v027.n016",
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          "text": "Then it occurred to me --- Wolfe's alien's somehow aren't that alien\neither.  But in his case it seems to me deliberate.  In his blurring the\nboundary of fantasy and science fiction, his aliens are somewhat like his\nundines etc.: slightly altered human beings for a universe which is somehow\nslightly changed from ours.\ncorncrake"
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          "text": "That is definitely the case for all his artificial creatures, such as the\nhollow men, (and more noticeably in the Long Sun) -- they are all made in\nthe image of G*d, and all can be saved.  So, they have a commonality\nwith human experience.  In contradistinction to PK Dick, where humans\nare vulnerable to becoming automata.\n\nDavid Duffy."
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