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  "thread": {
    "id": 3956,
    "subject": "Watson and Wolfe",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2003-04-20T04:51:42+00:00",
    "last": "2003-04-20T04:55:18+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0304-3251@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "David Duffy",
        "address": "davidd at qimr.edu.au"
      },
      "date": "2003-04-20T04:51:42+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Watson and Wolfe",
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          "text": "On Sun, 20 Apr 2003 Adam Stephanides <adamsteph at earthlink.net> wrote:\n\nI've only read a little Ian Watson, and didn't like him, but there is a\nsuperficial similarity between him and Wolfe.  They're both \"cerebral\"\nand \"literary\" authors, though my memory of Watson is that his stuff\nreally is empty of emotion.  Incidentally, I once read an article by\nWatson criticizing SotT because the protagonist was a torturer;\nsomething about making it seem that torturers weren't really so bad,\niirc (but don't quote me)."
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          "text": "Was it possibly a review in Foundation, comparing Donaldson's _The One\nTree_ with _The Sword of the Lictor_ (both out at that time)?  As I\nremember that article, the reviewer found Wolfe impressive but cool,\nwhile Donaldson semed to cared more about his characters and their\ndilemmas and so moved more.  Despite shortcomings, Short Sun _is_ less \ncool, I think.  \n\nI quite like Watson, but the main similarity with Wolfe is that his work\nis intellectual and aimed at adults.  I would be curious to see what\nWolfe would have done with _The Gardens of Delight_ ;)"
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          "text": "| David Duffy (MBBS PhD)                                         ,-_|\\\n| email: davidD at qimr.edu.au  ph: INT+61+7+3362-0217 fax: -0101  /     *\n| Epidemiology Unit, Queensland Institute of Medical Research   \\_,-._/\n| 300 Herston Rd, Brisbane, Queensland 4029, Australia  GPG 4D0B994A v \n\n-- "
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    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0304-3252@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "David Duffy",
        "address": "davidd at qimr.edu.au"
      },
      "date": "2003-04-20T04:55:18+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Re: Watson and Wolfe",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0304-3251@digest.urth.net>",
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          "text": "I have to add the coda to a Watson bibliography I checked:\n\n             Visitors to this page also looked at these authors\n             Roger Zelazny\n             Karl Edward Wagner\n             Kate Wilhelm\n             John Wyndham\n             Jack Vance\n             Jack Williamson\n             Ian Wallace\n             Brian Aldiss\n             Gene Wolfe\n             H G Wells\n             Chelsea Quinn Yarbro\n             David Weber\n:)"
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          "text": "| David Duffy (MBBS PhD)                                         ,-_|\\\n| email: davidD at qimr.edu.au  ph: INT+61+7+3362-0217 fax: -0101  /     *\n| Epidemiology Unit, Queensland Institute of Medical Research   \\_,-._/\n| 300 Herston Rd, Brisbane, Queensland 4029, Australia  GPG 4D0B994A v \n\n-- "
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