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  "thread": {
    "id": 497,
    "subject": "Linked short stories",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1998-04-17T11:01:31+00:00",
    "last": "1998-04-17T11:01:31+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0009-0750@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "adam louis stephanides",
        "address": "astephan at students.uiuc.edu"
      },
      "date": "1998-04-17T11:01:31+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Linked short stories",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "depth": 1,
          "text": "On Thu, 16 Apr 1998 William H. Ansley wrote:\nOne may excuse Wolfe (and I am well aware that he needs no excuse from me)\nby saying that his stories hold up by themselves and the references to\nother of his works are a reward for careful readers. This is certainly\ntrue, but Wolfe seems to have mastered writing a set of related pieces that\ncomplement each other so well that their whole is very much greater than\nthe sum of their parts better than any other writer I can think of. (In\nfact, does anyone else know of *any* other writer who does this?) It seems\na shame then that these stories or novellas are first published separately.\n_The Fifth Head of Cerberus_ is a perfect example of this at its best. The\nnovellas all work separately quite well but together they form a most\nremarkable work."
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          "text": "A recent example of this (though on a lesser aesthetic plane than Fifth\nHead) is two short stories, \"Bluesberry Jam\" and \"Ain't You Most Done?\"\nThe first of these appeared in an anthology whose title I forget, whose\ntheme was music in science fiction IIRC; the second appeared in an anth-\nology of Sandman (the Neil Gaiman comic character) prose stories, entitled\n\"The Sandman: Book of Dreams\" or something like that.  The two stories\ndepict, in part, the same events from the perspective of two different\ncharacters; but they give quite different pictures of what is \"really\"\ngoing on.\n\n--Adam"
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