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  "thread": {
    "id": 4398,
    "subject": "Dan Quinn anyone?",
    "messages": 3,
    "voices": 3,
    "first": "2005-04-05T13:38:14+00:00",
    "last": "2005-04-06T21:33:42+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<3d03967f050405133832567a59@mail.gmail.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Uwe Schuerkamp",
        "address": "uwe.schuerkamp at gmail.com"
      },
      "date": "2005-04-05T13:38:14+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Dan Quinn anyone?",
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          "text": "Hi folks,\n\nI was wondering after a bit of lurking here if anyone is familiar with\nthe works of Daniel Quinn?\n\nAll the best, \n\nuwe "
        },
        {
          "kind": "sig",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "http://www.schuerkamp.de/"
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      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<4254873D.4030805@gmail.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "maru",
        "address": "marudubshinki at gmail.com"
      },
      "date": "2005-04-06T18:08:17+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Dan Quinn anyone?",
      "in_reply_to": "<3d03967f050405133832567a59@mail.gmail.com>",
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          "text": "Uwe Schuerkamp wrote:\nHi folks,\n\nI was wondering after a bit of lurking here if anyone is familiar with\nthe works of Daniel Quinn?\n\nAll the best, \n\nuwe \n\n "
        },
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          "text": "I haven't anyway. But I am curious: what connection do you see\nbetween Quinn and Wolfe?\nThe summaries wikipedia proffered didn't reveal any immediately\nobvious link.\n\n~Maru"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<Pine.LNX.4.58.0504071403320.5054@orpheus.qimr.edu.au>",
      "from": {
        "name": "David Duffy",
        "address": "david.duffy at qimr.edu.au"
      },
      "date": "2005-04-06T21:33:42+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Empire Star and New Sun",
      "in_reply_to": "<4254873D.4030805@gmail.com>",
      "reply_link": "header",
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          "text": "I've just been rereading Delany's _Empire Star_ (1966), and was struck by\ncertain resonances with tBotNS\n\nI suppose SPOILERS AHOY\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\na) the heroine is Sai Severina\nb) who as Princess of the Empire (with a dying father) will ascend to the throne\nthat controls the time gate\nc) travels back in time to carry out her plan to free the enslaved Lll\n(the name of the only member of this creative race we meet is an anagram\nof Samuel R Delany)\nd) which entails the recruitment and education of the hero Comet Jo to her\ncause (a 500 year wait under the pseudonym Charona)\ne) who then helps the young Severina kickstart her plan and time travel\nloop.\nf) and when older helps recruit himself to the plan just as he dies\n\nI don't remember the original typesetting, but in the 1980 (reprinted\n2000) illustrated version, after the linear story of Jo, the loop is\npresented in a half page summary with mandalas made up of the\nillustrations.\n\n\nDavid Duffy."
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