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  "thread": {
    "id": 1304,
    "subject": "SF Book Club",
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    "first": "2001-03-29T23:39:27+00:00",
    "last": "2001-03-29T23:39:27+00:00"
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      "message_id": "<whorl-v0012-0513@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "BraveSaintCroix",
        "address": "bravesaintcroix at aol.com"
      },
      "date": "2001-03-29T23:39:27+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) SF Book Club",
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          "text": "All,\n\n    Whoo-pee, I finally feel like I have something worthwhile to contribute \nto this group- unless, of course, someone beats me to it.  I got the April \ncatalogue of the Science Fiction Book Club today, and it has a one-page \narticle/advertisement for the Book of the Short Sun.  Of course, as is the \nway of the SFBC, it makes the book sound terribly pulp-sci-fi-ish.  (. . . \nthe inhumi, blood drinking aliens who take human form. . . )  It even seems \nto give away quiet a bit.  The last paragraph reads: \"As his inability to \nfind Silk weights heavily on his mind, Horn if further tormented by the fact \nthat his new body bears a striking resemblance to the lost Calde.  In the \nend, he will have to answer a troubling question: has he truly failed in his \nsworn task, or has he become the very man he sought?\"\n    I'm not complaining though, because it also includes a \"note from the \nauthor\".  Gene Wolfe writes:  \"At the end of the 18th Century, serious \nscientists denied that stones could fall from the sky.  At the end of this \none, very few still insist that phenomena incapable of proof are beyond the \nrealm of possibility.  We may doubt telepathy, ghost, and precognition- \nindeed, we should doubt them.  But we cannot rule them out altogether.  That \nphenomenon most often called astral projection plays a part in these books.  \n(So does space travel, which most adults derided as utterly impossible not so \nlong ago.)\"  And here's what really got me: \"Accept it for the sake of the \nstory, and you may learn the identity of Master Malrubius's ghost.\"  (My \nemphasis.)  Wow.  That makes my head spin.  I didn't even think of that, and \nif I remember, no one on here has discussed it much.  Who then, was Master \nMalrubius's ghost?\n\n-Steve \n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
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