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  "thread": {
    "id": 3047,
    "subject": "OT, Wolfe-like stories",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2002-03-18T21:14:50+00:00",
    "last": "2002-03-18T21:14:50+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0203-369@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Michael Andre-Driussi",
        "address": "mantis at siriusfiction.com"
      },
      "date": "2002-03-18T21:14:50+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) OT, Wolfe-like stories",
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          "text": "I recently read the Hartwell/Cramer anthology THE ASCENT OF WONDER: THE\nEVOLUTION OF HARD SF.\n\nIt is a good antho; it is a thick antho; it has two Wolfe stories in it\n(\"Procreation\" and \"All the Hues of Hell\").  It has a solid approach: it is\nlike taking a course in Big(gest) Tent \"hard sf,\" reading it through in\norder and seeing the various threads the editors are talking about.  This\nis \"value added\" to the simple collection--a guided tour of the\narchitecture and history by seasoned professionals.\n\nThere are a few stories I read for the first time in here that I thought\nwere great, but one in particular that I would like to recommend:\n\"Chromatic Aberration\" by John M. Ford.\n\nI find it Wolfe-like but in no way immitative.  I will search for more of\nhis work, because I am very interested based on this one story.\n\n\"Wolfe-like, how?\" you might well ask.  The story is not baroque science\nfantasy ala New Sun, it is more like magical realism and something else.\nIt also seems like a Le Guin work, if that helps capture what I'm trying to\nconvey without giving away too much of anything at all.\n\nI can't help but wonder what other readers see--I'd love to compare notes\nin private email.\n\n=mantis=\n\n\nSirius Fiction\nbooklets on Gene Wolfe, John Crowley\nNow with UPDATES!\nhttp://www.siriusfiction.com/"
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