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  "thread": {
    "id": 5513,
    "subject": "Cloud Nine",
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    "first": "2009-11-12T02:59:19+00:00",
    "last": "2009-11-12T02:59:19+00:00"
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      "message_id": "<4AFB7A07.9020007@verizon.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "David Stockhoff",
        "address": "dstockhoff at verizon.net"
      },
      "date": "2009-11-12T02:59:19+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Cloud Nine",
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          "text": "John Crowley's /Engine Summer /may use that concept. There's little to go on, but it's either that or vast amounts of energy spent keeping the angels' city up. And you'd need to warm a city at 15,000 feet anyway."
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          "text": "------------------------------\n\nMessage: 4\nDate: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:01:48 -0500\nFrom: Gwern Branwen <gwern0 at gmail.com>\nTo: The Urth Mailing List <urth at lists.urth.net>\nSubject: Re: (urth) Wolfe-influenced, if not Wolfe-esque\nMessage-ID:\n\t<cbf55b100911101701q4b3f6b6cx6d0bbfd58769fa8d at mail.gmail.com>\nContent-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n\nOn Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Stephen Case <scase at olivet.edu> wrote:"
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          "text": "I've published a second story that the list may or may not be interested in. ?I link it here simply because I consider myself a writer heavily influenced by Wolfe (and would of course welcome feedback): http://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/story.php?s=63\n\n-Steve"
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          "text": "  \n\nI think it's pretty decent, and not too long. The language is\nsometimes a bit affected where I suspect Wolf would've been terser.\neg. I feel Wolfe might've written 'But I find I am getting ahead of my\naccount.' as 'But I overrun my narrative.'\n\nThe story itself is fine. My biggest gripe is that I'm still not sure\nhow the palace thing worked. Invisible water lifting the palace?\n\nThe entire time I was reading, I kept hoping - Be a Cloud Nine! Be a\nCloud Nine! (See\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_nine_(Tensegrity_sphere) - a\ngeodesic dome or sphere so large that its diameter is so small in\nproportion to its volume that it turns into a hot air balloon,\nessentially.)\n\nThat would also be more Wolfean - real (at least, proposed) technology\nthought to be magic. But I'll admit I'm biased since I love the idea\nof a Cloud Nine and have used them in 2 of my own stories.\n\n-- gwern ------------------------------"
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