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  "thread": {
    "id": 1787,
    "subject": "Robinson on Wolfe",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "1999-09-17T13:02:40+00:00",
    "last": "1999-09-17T20:17:03+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0122@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Nicholas Gevers",
        "address": "vermoulian at yahoo.com"
      },
      "date": "1999-09-17T13:02:40+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Robinson on Wolfe",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "Recently, while conducting an interview with Kim Stanley Robinson, I\nasked him his opinion concerning Gene Wolfe's contribution to SF. This\nwas his response:\n\nKSR: Well it would be hard to particularize, he has contributed so\nmuch. In short, greatness. He is similar to the great modernist masters\nof the first half of the century, people like Stevens or Proust or\nWoolf, in that he has a very powerful personal vision, and great moral\ncomplexity and intensity, expressed in beautiful prose and surreal\nimagery, in many superb stories and novels. We in the sf community can\npoint to his work as evidence that science fiction is capable of\nachieving all that modernism ever hoped for literature, and then some,\nin that he plots better than most of the modernists.\n\nAs for specifically science fictional contributions, the working\nknowledge of technology and society given to him by his editing job at\nPLANT ENGINEERING allowed him to be sophisticated and authoritative\nwhen he introduced scientific elements into his work. At the same time\nthere is a dreamlike quality to much of his writing, in its boldness\nand strangeness, and seeming inevitability. This combination of gifts\nallowed him the greatest achievement in science fantasy, in his Sun\nmasterpieces.\n\n\n\n\n==="
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      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0123@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Fr.Inire",
        "address": "inire at yahoo.com"
      },
      "date": "1999-09-17T20:17:03+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) Robinson on Wolfe",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0028-0122@digest.urth.net>",
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          "text": "geez, you'd think he would have at least said\nsomething _NICE_...;->\n\nI try to explain my version of KSR's proclamation, but\nit doesn't seem to sawy many votes...<sigh>. P'Raps I\nshould send the above around and see if THAT moves any mountains!\n===\nJeff \"My dice hate me!\" Miller\n\nThe HeavyGear Parts SwapMeet is at http://freecenter.digiweb.com/games/severian/swap.html\nHeavy Gear: Not your Dad's walking robot game...www.dp9.com\n\n\nGaming to keep War out of RealTime!        '82 GS650G"
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