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  "thread": {
    "id": 31,
    "subject": "Re Typhon and fictional crosslinks",
    "messages": 1,
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    "first": "1997-01-18T08:49:15+00:00",
    "last": "1997-01-18T08:49:15+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0001-0049@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "CoxRathvon",
        "address": "coxrathvon at aol.com"
      },
      "date": "1997-01-18T08:49:15+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Re Typhon and fictional crosslinks",
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          "text": "Like RevJack, I had taken note of the name \"Typhon,\" the tyrant who called\nhimself Pas.  For what it's worth--and I anticipate a divergence of opinion\non this point--I think it's a bad idea, generally, for authors to create\nlinks between their own novels when those books could exist wholly\nindependently.  I  understand the temptation to make these links.  Certain\nauthors (Cordwainer Smith, for example) have made a success of setting\nvirtually all their stories in the same fictional universe.  But does Silk's\ntale really *need* to have any connection to Severian's?  I see no compelling\nreason for Wolfe to mix these epics, and I hope the crosslinks will remain\nminimal.  I suppose I'm a bit of a purist in this regard.  (I hasten to add\nthat I don't at all mind *resemblances* to elements in the author's other\nwork.  For example, Green and Blue certainly make one think of the twin\nplanets in \"The Fifth Head of Cerberus.\"  But I'd prefer, as a reader, that\nthese elements remain analagous, not actually interbred.  End of grumpy\naside.)\n\n--Henry Rathvon\n\nQuestions or problems to whorl-owner at lists.best.com"
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