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  "thread": {
    "id": 699,
    "subject": "The Heads of Cerberus",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1998-06-01T16:02:17+00:00",
    "last": "1998-06-01T16:02:17+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0012-0039@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "adam louis stephanides",
        "address": "astephan at students.uiuc.edu"
      },
      "date": "1998-06-01T16:02:17+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) The Heads of Cerberus",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "I've also been reading a book entitled _The Heads of Cerberus_, by\n\"Francis Stevens\" (a pseudonym for Gertrude Bennett).  It was originally\npublished in 1919, I would guess in magazine form, but the copy I read is \na small-press reprint from 1952.  It's about three people from the present\nwho are transported by some strange dust into 22nd-century Philadelphia.\nIt's very much the sort of pulp Wolfe parodied in \"The Last Thrilling\nWonder Story,\" and it's pretty bad, so much so that after I got halfway\nthrough I just skimmed the rest.  But, though there are no thematic or\nstructural similarities I can detect between _Heads_ and FHC, there are a\nfew odd points of similarity which make it possible that Wolfe read\n_Heads_ and incorporated some allusions to it.  These are:\n\n1) A society frozen in stasis and ruled by a tyrannical government\n\n2) People designated only by numbers (in _Heads_, everybody but the elite\nin future Philadelphia\n\n3) A library which the protagonist(s) are forbidden to enter.\n\nI can post or email a description of the book if anyone's interested.\n\n--Adam"
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