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  "thread": {
    "id": 3020,
    "subject": "7 early stories",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2002-03-07T21:09:03+00:00",
    "last": "2002-03-07T21:09:03+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0203-313@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Michael Andre-Driussi",
        "address": "mantis at siriusfiction.com"
      },
      "date": "2002-03-07T21:09:03+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) 7 early stories",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Adam Stephanides asked about some stories.  I'll quote Joan Gordon by way\nof reply, adding a little:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Mountains Like Mice"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "\"Wolfe's first published science-fiction story, this is an initiation story\nshowing his characteristic interest in myth.\"\n\nHmmm.  It has something of the feel of \"`A Story' by John V. Marsch.\"  It\nis set on a terraformed Mars, iirc."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Screen Test"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "\"A non-science-fiction mystery story based on false assumptions.\"\n\nIt is a Chinese screen.  Art object, not motion-picture initiation."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Volksweapon"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "\"A straight mystery story\"\n\nA lake in the woods. Rape, murder, guns.  And a Volkswagon, of course."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "The Green Wall Said"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "\"Crossed communications and the value of humanity.\"\n\nHmmm.  A \"Hollywood bowl\" type dingus writes out a message from the stars,\nfragment by fragment."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "It's Very Clean"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "\"Who is real and who is not, in the sexual arena.\""
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Thou Spark of Blood"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "\"A spaceship murder with allusions to _Macbeth_.\""
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "King under the Mountain."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "\"A personal relationship between a man and a computer.\"\n\nThe computer is deep underground.\n\n=mantis="
        }
      ]
    }
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