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  "thread": {
    "id": 15,
    "subject": "Gene Wolfe\"s \"The Fifth Head of Cerberus\"",
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    "first": "1983-11-03T16:04:20+00:00",
    "last": "1983-11-03T16:04:20+00:00"
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      "message_id": "<2321@yale-com.UUCP>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Jerry Leichter",
        "address": "leichter at yale-com.uucp"
      },
      "date": "1983-11-03T16:04:20+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: Gene Wolfe\"s \"The Fifth Head of Cerberus\"",
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          "text": "\"The Fifth Head of Cerebrus\" consists of three stories, each of which could\nmore or less stand alone - the second, with the same title as the book, was\noriginally published as a novella.  (I read it in one of Terry Carr's collec-\ntions; I don't know where else it might have appeared.)  The stories take\nplace on one of two twin colony worlds; their common thread is a single charac-\nter, a visiting Earch scientist, who is an incidental character in the first\nstory - come to think of it, I guess THAT's the previously published one, the\nnarrator of the second (which is actually a re-telling of a myth told by the\nconjectural (? - but the reason for the \"?\" is deep in the story) native\nresidents of one of the planets, and the central character in the third.\n\nThe book develops slowly.  If you really want to get the absolute most out of\nthe first story, read it a little bit at a time over a matter of a couple of\ndays.\n\nOverall, it's a marvelous book.  It's beautifully written, much of it being in\nWolfe's typical \"take some hackneyed style and do something totally unexpected\nwith it\".  Thus, the first story is very much in the Gothic tradition - terrible\nfamily secret, etc.\n\nBy all means, give it a read.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t-- Jerry"
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