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    "id": 2176,
    "subject": "\"fascinating\", exclaimed Spock in a flat emotionless monotone...",
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    "first": "2000-04-01T20:38:50+00:00",
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      "from": {
        "name": "Talarican",
        "address": "exultnttalarican at mindspring.com"
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      "date": "2000-04-01T20:38:50+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) \"fascinating\", exclaimed Spock in a flat emotionless monotone...",
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          "text": "From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Nicholas=20Gevers?= <vermoulian at yahoo.com>\nSubject: Wolfe does Star Trek\nDate: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 22:00:20 -0800 (PST)"
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          "text": "For news of GW's next series--a New Sun/Star Trek\ncrossover starting with HE'S DEAD, SEVERIAN--see\ntoday's \"Locus Online Buys Simon & Schuster\" entry on\nLOCUS ONLINE (www.locusmag.com)."
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          "text": "...\n\nSo I go there and read,\n<quote, from an unnamed LOCUS ONLINE flack>\n\" ...We're particuarly excited about signing Gene Wolfe to write for Star\nTrek. His work will bring about a sorely needed rapprochement between\ntraditional literary and media-oriented SF.\"\n<unquote>\n\nSo is \"traditional literary sf\" the name for GW's niche now? Not\n\"literature\", I note.\n\n<quote>\nStar Trek editor John Ordover confirmed that Wolfe's four-volume sequence\n''The Book of the Old Sun'' will tie three earlier Wolfe series to the Star\nTrek universe. (?!)\n<unquote>\n\nSo Cyriaca's Empire of A Thousand Stars Based Only On Order is a memory of\nan evolutionary development of the Federation? (or perhaps, the Borg?)\n\nAnd the Q Continuum will turn out to be Yesod and the Hierogrammates?\n\nWonder if the Hierodules (at least the smooth beautiful white ones who love\nto dwell in chilly drizzle for their 20-yr lifespans) will be identified as\nany of the races with whom the Federation has dealings?\n\nActually, some crossover of Star Trek situations into Wolfe seem to have\noccured. The idea of a generation ship built inside a hollow rock, run by a\nsupercomputer which interacts with the inhabitants in the manner of a deity\nthrough a religion and priesthood, is completely original to Wolfe, right?\nIf you say yes, go get hold of the original series Star Trek episode \"For\nthe World is Hollow, and I Have Touched the Sky\" which probably first aired\nin early 1969. Arguably, _Yonada_ seems to be smaller than the _Whorl_, and\nthere doesn't seem to be a crew per se, but still..."
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