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  "thread": {
    "id": 2787,
    "subject": "Ringworld",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2001-08-17T11:13:48+00:00",
    "last": "2001-08-17T11:13:48+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0030-0642@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Nigel Price",
        "address": "nigel.a.price at virgin.net"
      },
      "date": "2001-08-17T11:13:48+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Ringworld",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "Re. Hamilton's \"Night's Dawn\" trilogy, Pippen asked..."
        },
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          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Yes, I've been fascinated all this last year, by the Peter Hamilton\ntrilogy.  I'm curious though, I can't think of a Larry Niven\n\"Ringworld\" structure among the many environments in\nHamilton's fictional universe.  Could you be more specific???"
        },
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          "text": "Yes, I was thinking of the ring of giant disk cities orbiting the Red Giant\nstar which Joshua and Syrinx discover in the final section of \"The Naked\nGod\". I thought that the combination of colossal engineering and the warring\nraces and nations of Tyrathca and Mosdva within the cities was strongly\nreminiscent of Niven's \"Ringworld\" novels. That and the fact that, like the\nRingworld, the disk cities are breaking down and badly in need of repair and\nmaintenance.\n\nI know full well that it is almost impossible to \"prove\" the influence of\none writer on another unless there is some sort of explicit acknowledgement,\nas in the case of Hamilton's own comments on his website on his debt to E E\n\"Doc\" Smith. Even so, I thought that there were a number of aspects of\n\"Night's Dawn\" which were strongly reminiscent of Niven, including the\naccount of the Ruin Ring in \"The Reality Dysfunction\" and the distant echoes\nof the stories in \"Neutron Star\" in Hamilton's accounts of unusual stellar\nphenomena.\n\nOn a different, and slightly more Lupine tack: \"Night's Dawn\" is all about\n(demon) possession, its nature and its consequences. I wondered how people\nfelt Hamilton's treatment of the subject compared with Wolfe's, given how\noften Wolfe features possession, particularly in the Long and Short Sun\nbooks. (Whoops, we may be straying into \"Whorl\" territory here...)\n\nNigel\nMinety, Wilts"
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