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  "thread": {
    "id": 1362,
    "subject": "[OT] Crowley, _The Translator_",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2001-04-17T08:40:28+00:00",
    "last": "2001-04-17T08:40:28+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0012-0621@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Kevin J. Maroney",
        "address": "kmaroney at ungames.com"
      },
      "date": "2001-04-17T08:40:28+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Re: [OT] Crowley, _The Translator_",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
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          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "At 11:05 PM 4/16/01 -0500, you wrote:\nBefore it appears, there'll be a standalone novel, already completed,\nentitled THE TRANSLATORS.  There are conflicting reports on rasfw as to its\nnature: Kevin Maroney believes it's \"a science fiction novel with angels as\nmajor characters\" ... but another\nposter quotes LOCUS as saying it's a mainstream novel."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "I misremembered what I had read. Crowley says in his interview with Alice\nTurner that it is \n\n  a book with very different ambitions (though it too deals with the powers\n  and great angels). It's called _The Translator_ and will be out in about\n  a year. It's a love story about poets and poetry, and it takes place at\n  a Midwestern university at the time of the Cuban missle crisis. ...\n  [It is] only marginally science fiction. "
        },
        {
          "kind": "sig",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Kevin Maroney | kmaroney at crossover.com | (212) 777-1190\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
        }
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