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  "thread": {
    "id": 6519,
    "subject": "Urth Digest, Vol 115, Issue 7",
    "messages": 1,
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    "first": "2014-03-13T08:52:23+00:00",
    "last": "2014-03-13T08:52:23+00:00"
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      "message_id": "<CADAcD-PsFJoo_bDA5HK4sg4CTjPAXDpOTjmfro-S_1W3_8pAtw@mail.gmail.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Andreas Johansson",
        "address": "andreas.havok at gmail.com"
      },
      "date": "2014-03-13T08:52:23+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Urth Digest, Vol 115, Issue 7",
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          "text": "I bump Craigs recommendation!, great start for \"Southern Reach\" trilogy.\n\n\"Jagannath\" by Karin Tidbeck is a short story collection, in summary it's\nnew weird in nordic countries setting (mostly, not all), very fresh,\ndisturbing, and yet sweet sometimes. Also the stories originally written in\nswedish Karin translated herself, that impressed me very much.\n\nGlad to see Karin getting some international attention! I loved that\ncollection, and I really hope her debut novel Amatka will be translated\nsoon enough - it's a surrealist dystopia, somehow inspired by both Vilhelm\nMoberg's classic (if you're Swedish at least) novels about the hardship of\nSwedish immigrants in USA in the 19th century, the dystopia of Fahrenheit\n451 and We (mind control, re-write history etc), but drifting away into\ncomplete surrealism - a lovely authorship in its early stages! I'd\nencourage more people to check her out: http://karintidbeck.com/"
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          "text": "Myself I've just started on Peace, for a second time - can't say that I'm\nmaking much of it after merely 30-40 pages but I'm sure it will unfold into\nsomething spectacular, as Wolfe always does... a recent book sale landed\nthe Latro omnibus on my shelves alongside some nice Surrealists (Jarry,\nBurroughs, Leonora Carrington, Dorothea Tanning) so I have way, way too\nmuch to read. Finished Alastair Reynolds' last opus some day ago, On the\nSteel Breeze, the 2nd part of his new trilogy Poseidon's Children. Carved\nout asteroids as generation ships, personalities divided into\ntriplicates or invested in artilects - some slight Wolfean inspiration\nperhaps? Reynolds' characterizations and narrative structures are slowly\ngrowing better and more complex, but it's still clear that he's a hard SF\nwriter to the core - chapters reading like spaceship manuals, long chunks\nof prose explaining the movements of celestial bodies... lovely in one\nsense, but after delving deep into Wolfe & Philip K Dick I feel an urge for\nSF that doesn't depend on actually _explaining_ the tech stuff to feel\nplausible. Which is exactly why I had to pause reading Peter F Hamilton's\nmonster-brick of an epic The Reality Dysfunction (1200+ pages!).\n\nHope this message comes out allright, this is my second time posting on the\nlist so pardon any mistakes :)\n\nyrs\nAndreas"
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