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    "id": 4595,
    "subject": "Small Wolfe Essay",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "2006-05-16T21:05:44+00:00",
    "last": "2006-05-17T01:07:04+00:00"
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      "message_id": "<20060516210544.91101.qmail@web52001.mail.yahoo.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Fred Kiesche",
        "address": "godel2escher2bach at yahoo.com"
      },
      "date": "2006-05-16T21:05:44+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Small Wolfe Essay",
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          "text": "Greetings:\n\nNot sure if this has been mentioned or not, but Gene\nWolfe (I just found out, having gotten the book\nyesterday) wrote the introduction to \"The Complete\nHammer's Slammers, Volume One\" by David Drake (Night\nShade Books). It's a good essay, even if I disagree\nwith some of the statements about who is qualified to\nwrite military SF.\n\nTake care!\n\n\n\n    Fred Kiesche (FPK3)\n \n My books are water; those of great geniuses are wine. Everybody drinks water. (Mark Twain, \"Notebook\")\nOver 6,000 postings served! See The Eternal Golden Braid (http://theeternalgoldenbraid.blogspot.com/ ).\n\n \n "
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    {
      "message_id": "<Pine.LNX.4.58.0605171102370.15253@orpheus.qimr.edu.au>",
      "from": {
        "name": "David Duffy",
        "address": "david.duffy at qimr.edu.au"
      },
      "date": "2006-05-17T01:07:04+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Small Wolfe Essay",
      "in_reply_to": "<20060516210544.91101.qmail@web52001.mail.yahoo.com>",
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          "text": "On Tue, 16 May 2006, Fred Kiesche wrote:\n\nNot sure if this has been mentioned or not, but Gene\nWolfe (I just found out, having gotten the book\nyesterday) wrote the introduction to \"The Complete\nHammer's Slammers, Volume One\" by David Drake (Night\nShade Books)."
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          "kind": "text",
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          "text": "The intro was also reprinted in NYRSF."
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          "text": "It's a good essay, even if I disagree\nwith some of the statements about who is qualified to\nwrite military SF."
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          "text": "Of course Wolfe is an author of military SF too, and fits his own\ncriteria ;)\n\nDavid Duffy,"
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