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  "thread": {
    "id": 3028,
    "subject": "Virconium",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2002-03-12T17:09:51+00:00",
    "last": "2002-03-12T17:09:51+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0203-333@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Darryl Swett",
        "address": "edorian at hotmail.com"
      },
      "date": "2002-03-12T17:09:51+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Virconium",
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      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "Hello Mantis,\n\nI did a quick search on my library site, and I found these entries:\n\n1    The Centauri Device / [By] M. John Harrison.   BOOK  1974.\n2    The Committed Men / [By] M. John Harrison.   BOOK  1971.\n3    The Pastel City / [By] M. John Harrison.   BOOK  1972 [c1971]\n\nDo these make up Virconium?  And the order is oldest to newest?  This series \nlooks very interesting.\n\nThank you, sir.\n\n\nDragonfly  (Darryl)"
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          "depth": 1,
          "text": "From: Michael Andre-Driussi <mantis at siriusfiction.com>\nReply-To: urth at urth.net\nTo: urth at urth.net\nSubject: Re: (urth) Follow up: I need help\nDate: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 06:18:46 -0800\n\nG Willickers wrote:"
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          "text": "   Does anyone have evidence of Earth's pollution\nother than the poisoning of the water supply?"
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          "text": "Industrial pollution doesn't seem to play a large part in the Commonwealth.\nThe  poisoning of the water seems more a result of the city's large\npopulation than any residue of previous ages.\n\n(Pollution plays a more significant role in M. John Harrison's far future,\nbut not \"dying sun\" series: Virconium. THE PASTEL CITY is one novel.  IIRC,\nthere are deserts of metallic rust, pools of corrosive agents, etc.  Which,\nin turn, reminds me of Miyazaki's manga/anime film \"Nausicaa: Valley of the\nWind,\" which is very much about pollution lingering into the far future,\nchanging society and the landscape.)\n\n=mantis=\n\n\nSirius Fiction\nbooklets on Gene Wolfe, John Crowley\nNow with UPDATES!\nhttp://www.siriusfiction.com/\n\n\n\n--"
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