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  "thread": {
    "id": 2613,
    "subject": "Emil Petaja",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2001-04-30T08:58:37+00:00",
    "last": "2001-04-30T08:58:37+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0030-0362@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "David Lebling",
        "address": "dlebling at ucentric.com"
      },
      "date": "2001-04-30T08:58:37+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Emil Petaja",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
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          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "From: \"Alice Turner\" <akt at attglobal.net>\nWhat is Emil Petaja's series? The shamaness witch in Xena was a very bad\nhat, a worthy opponent, and the eps (3, I think) were quite thrilling,\nwith a lot of wire work a la Crouching Tiger. I don't suppose Finnish\nand Lap mythology differs much, but \"Finnish witches\" doesn't have the\nuncanny sound of \"Lapland witches.\""
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "According to http://www.pandorasbox.com/petaja.html (isn't Google\nwonderful?) the Kalevala-related books are:\n\n_Saga of Lost Earths_, _The Star Mill_, _The Stolen Sun_, _Tramontane_ which\nmake up the \"Otava Series\", and peripherally, _The Time Twister_.\n\nThese were all published by Ace in the mid-60s (remember Ace Doubles?). I'm\nsure they are all long out-of-print."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "I'm 135 pages into Book 3 and already I feel that the writer is\nflagging. Those critters that Dr. Malone finds with the wheels and\ntrunks seem plain silly to me, ditto the giant birds with the malevolent\npoops."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Agree completely. There are some excellent segments further on, though.\n\n    Dave Lebling\n    aka vizcacha"
        }
      ]
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