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  "thread": {
    "id": 443,
    "subject": "C. Smith stories",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1997-09-12T11:46:14+00:00",
    "last": "1997-09-12T11:46:14+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0007-0593@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Ron Crown",
        "address": "crownrw at slu.edu"
      },
      "date": "1997-09-12T11:46:14+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) C. Smith stories",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "We'll soon run out of Smith stories to list (in my book, only the Casher\nO'Neill stories fail to exercise the Smith magic) but, in addition to\nthose listed, I would include \"Drunkboat\" mainly because it appeared in\nan old Pyramid paperback \"Space Lords\" (that I bought new back in the\n60s for 60 cents [!] and still have) that was my first exposure to\nSmith.  I haven't read it in a long time so it might not stand up now\nbut I can sure remember the effect it had on me then.  \"Scanners\" may\nnot be as polished as some other Smith stories but it has a certain raw\npower that I still feel upon rereading even after the \"golden age\" (long\ngone).  I seem to remember that Robert Silverberg had some interesting\ncomments on \"Scanners\" in an anthology of stories all of which were\nfollowed by a brief Silverberg essay.  Oh, and there's \"Think Blue,\nCount Two\" and \"The Crime and Glory of Commander Suzdal\" and...you get\nthe idea.\n\nRon Crown"
        }
      ]
    }
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