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  "thread": {
    "id": 3162,
    "subject": "Dating Pandora",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2002-04-17T14:09:23+00:00",
    "last": "2002-04-17T14:09:23+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0204-639@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Christopher Culver",
        "address": "christopher_culver at yahoo.com"
      },
      "date": "2002-04-17T14:09:23+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Dating Pandora",
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      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "Adam Stephanides wrote:\nThe Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (iirc) said there had been speculation\nthat PANDORA was actually written early in Wolfe's career.  Can anyone\nconfirm or deny this?"
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          "text": "I wouldn't be too surprised. We have Larry Leif the returned Vietnam \nveteran, who's nonetheless young enough to have a sister in high school, \nso that makes me suspect the story is late-1970's. Nonetheless, Holly \nlistens to tapes instead of records (unless Wolfe changed that when he \nsubmitted the story to Tor), so it could be early to mid-1980's.\n\nI always thought that Wolfe's turn-of-the-90's trilogy of fantastical \nworks (DOORS, CASTLEVIEW, PANDORA) were written quickly by a writer \ntrying to get a little rest from complicated drawn-out sagas like the \nBotNS and the Soldier series. So, people disappointed in Pandora because \nof their lightweight nature shouldn't just try to automatically conclude \nthat it was written earlier in Wolfe's career. Nonetheless, having a \nyoung Vietnam veteran in the book does complicate things...\n\nChristopher Culver"
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