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  "thread": {
    "id": 1911,
    "subject": "Swanwick on Wolfe",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "1999-11-03T11:25:01+00:00",
    "last": "1999-11-03T13:21:42+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0364@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Nicholas Gevers",
        "address": "vermoulian at yahoo.com"
      },
      "date": "1999-11-03T11:25:01+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Swanwick on Wolfe",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "In the course of an interview I've been conducting\nwith him, Michael Swanwick has some interesting things\nto say about Wolfe:\n1) \"he is, I honestly believe, the finest writer in\nthe English language alive today.\"\n2) On how 5HC helped inspire Swanwick's Nebula-winning\nnovel STATIONS OF THE TIDE:\nMS: \"It would be hard to exaggerate the impact THE\nFIFTH HEAD OF CERBERUS, and particularly the title\nnovella, had on me when I first read it. Not just the\nextraordinary beauty of the prose but the wit and\neconomy of Wolfe's solutions to any number of\ntechnical problems. If I didn't know Gene was an\nengineer, I think I'd be able to guess from that work.\nIt has the same lean elegance that really first-rate\nengineering has.\n\n\"So there's definitely a debt. As I was writing, in\nfact, I thought of the bureaucrat [the novel's\nprotagonist] as looking like Gene Wolfe. Gardner\nDozois once compared Gene to Dashiell Hammett's\nContinental Op, a man so ordinary-looking that if you\nlooked away for an instant he could disappear into a\ncrowd without a trace. I wanted that sense of someone\nwho's unremarkable superficially and yet, inside, he's\n... Gene Wolfe!\"\n\n\n\n====="
        }
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    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0365@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Marc Coleman",
        "address": "marc.coleman at mwcia.org"
      },
      "date": "1999-11-03T13:21:42+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) Swanwick on Wolfe",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0028-0364@digest.urth.net>",
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          "text": "I'd highly recommend Stations Of The Tide to anyone who has not read it.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tmarc"
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          "text": "At 11:25 AM 11/3/1999 -0800, you wrote:\nIn the course of an interview I've been conducting\nwith him, Michael Swanwick has some interesting things\nto say about Wolfe:\n1) \"he is, I honestly believe, the finest writer in\nthe English language alive today.\"\n2) On how 5HC helped inspire Swanwick's Nebula-winning\nnovel STATIONS OF THE TIDE:\nMS: \"It would be hard to exaggerate the impact THE\nFIFTH HEAD OF CERBERUS, and particularly the title\nnovella, had on me when I first read it. Not just the\nextraordinary beauty of the prose but the wit and\neconomy of Wolfe's solutions to any number of\ntechnical problems. If I didn't know Gene was an\nengineer, I think I'd be able to guess from that work.\nIt has the same lean elegance that really first-rate\nengineering has.\n\n\"So there's definitely a debt. As I was writing, in\nfact, I thought of the bureaucrat [the novel's\nprotagonist] as looking like Gene Wolfe. Gardner\nDozois once compared Gene to Dashiell Hammett's\nContinental Op, a man so ordinary-looking that if you\nlooked away for an instant he could disappear into a\ncrowd without a trace. I wanted that sense of someone\nwho's unremarkable superficially and yet, inside, he's\n... Gene Wolfe!\"\n\n\n\n=====\n\n__________________________________________________\nDo You Yahoo!?\nBid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com"
        }
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