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  "thread": {
    "id": 1754,
    "subject": "Ancients of Days",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1999-08-17T14:52:29+00:00",
    "last": "1999-08-17T14:52:29+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0066@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Kieran Cleary",
        "address": "kierannwn at tinet.ie"
      },
      "date": "1999-08-17T14:52:29+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) Ancients of Days",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Just finished reading Paul J. McAuley's second Confluence book, Ancients of\nDays, and contrary to the faint praise of a previous posting of mine, I\nthink that the series is living up to the expectations created (for me) by\nthe related short story Recording Angel in Greg Bear's New Legends (to which\nI am also indebted for introducing me to Greg Egan).\n\nAnyway, I'd be interested to hear coments from other Urthlings about the\nseries.\n\nVizcacha, regarding the related-authors list from Amazon,"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "\"Customers who bought titles by Gene Wolfe also bought titles by these\nauthors:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Frederick Forsyth\nJohn Le Carre\nDaniel Silva\nJoseph Kanon\nWilliam Safire\"<<\n\nI recently saw the following on Amazon (after another despairing, craven\nvisit to the \"On Blue's Waters\" section):\n\n\"Customers who bought titles by Gene Wolfe also bought titles by these\nauthors:\n\nDan Simmons\nMichael Swanwick\nPatricia A. McKillip\nAlfred Bester\nTheodore Sturgeon \"\n\nwhich would seem to be *slightly* more on the mark.\n\nKieran C.\n\n\n\n\nNorth West Labs\nStephen St. Court\nSligo\nRepublic of Ireland\n\nTel. +353 71 69441\nFax. +353 71 69451\nemail: kierannwn at tinet.ie"
        }
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