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  "thread": {
    "id": 2565,
    "subject": "Cherryh Jubilee?",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2001-02-11T23:01:47+00:00",
    "last": "2001-02-11T23:01:47+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0030-0277@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Nigel Price",
        "address": "nigel.a.price at virgin.net"
      },
      "date": "2001-02-11T23:01:47+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Cherryh Jubilee?",
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      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "Marc Aramini asks some interesting questions about the GW short story\n\"Cherry Jubilee\" and its possible connections with a Russian novel called\n\"Red Star\" by an author called Bogdanov.\n\nSorry, Marc, I can't answer your questions directly, but I do remember being\nconvinced when I read \"Cherry Jubilee\" that GW was having some gentle fun at\nthe expense of the SF author C J Cherryh, who in real life, of course,\nspells her name surname \"Cherry\". In particular, I thought that he was\npastiching the themes found in her Hugo-winning novel \"Cyteen\".\n\n\"Cyteen\" is, amongst other things, a highly convoluted murder mystery, set\non a planet colonized by humans of Russian and French descent. The heroine\nof the second part of the novel is the clone of the victim in the first\npart.\n\nNow, I'm not saying that the parallels are close, but we have the name\n\"Cherry\", the murder mystery, the Russian names, and the highly significant\nclone. My guess is that Wolfe found it amusing to juggle with these themes\nin a short story in which the name of the author being pastiched was itself\na significant item. The tribute is disguised, but at the same time perfectly\nopen and obvious - \"hidden in plain sight\", as Poe would have said.\n\nIncidentally, Wolfe refers to C J Cherryh as \"the Duchess of Oklahoma\" in\nhis essay \"The Ethos of Elfland\", which is included in the collection\n\"Castle of Days\". I think that that was intended as a compliment!\n\nI always meant to post this message on the Urth list and on cherryhlist at\nthe same time, to which I also used to subscribe, so that I could, as it\nwere, kill two birds with one stone, but I never got round to it. Marc's\nenquiry reminded me of my omission, so here you are...\n\nNigel\nMinety, Wiltshire, England"
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