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  "thread": {
    "id": 3811,
    "subject": "Gene Wolfe in Wikipedia",
    "messages": 1,
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    "first": "2003-01-25T15:45:25+00:00",
    "last": "2003-01-25T15:45:25+00:00"
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      "message_id": "<urth-v0301-2815@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Christopher Culver",
        "address": "christopher_culver at yahoo.com"
      },
      "date": "2003-01-25T15:45:25+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Gene Wolfe in Wikipedia",
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          "text": "Someone -probably someone who posts on this list - has created an entry \nfor Gene Wolfe at the already 100,000-entry, free (as in \"freedom\" as \nwell as in \"free beer\") web encyclopedia Wikipedia (www.wikipedia.org). \nRight now it's rudimentary, but I think that if some of us on the Urth \nlist tried their hand at expanding it, it could turn out a lot bigger \nand better. I've pasted a copy below. I'm going to translate the \narticle as it is into Esperanto (the fourth largest of Wikipedia's \nother-language sections) and post it this evening, but then go back and \ntry to improve the English entry a bit. It is worth mentioning that \nhe's an industrial engineer so that the reason for his Pringles \ninvention is clearer, as well as talking about other parts of his Solar \nCycle. I can't remember who on this list wrote the article for the \nWashington Post, but he should try putting information about the Solar \nCycle on Wikipedia because he did it quite well in that newspaper.\n\nChristopher Culver\n\nGene Wolfe\n\n From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.\n\nGene Wolfe is an American science fiction writer and a co-inventor of a \nmachine involved in making Pringles. He is noted for his dense, \nallusion-rich prose as well as the strong influence of his Catholic \nfaith, which he adopted later in life.\n\nHe is a prolific short story writer as well as a novelist, and has been \nnominated for the Hugo Award, Nebula Award, and World Fantasy Award \nmultiple times.\n\nHis best-known and best-regarded work is the multi-volume work ''The \nBook of the New Sun'', a work set in a distant future Earth detailing \nthe life of Severian, an apprentice torturer, as he ultimately becomes \nthe messiah. The work is composed of the novels The Shadow of the \nTorturer (1980), The Claw of Conciliator (1981), The Sword of the \nLictor (1982), and Citadel of the Autarch (1983). A subsequent novel, \n\"The Urth of the New Sun'' (1987) wrapped up some loose ends but is \ngenerally considered a separate work.\n\nAlthough not a best-selling author, Wolfe is extremely highly regarded \nby critics and fellow writers, and considered by many to be one of the \nbest living science fiction authors."
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