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  "thread": {
    "id": 584,
    "subject": "Wolfean stuff in Nova Express",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "1998-12-20T13:43:43+00:00",
    "last": "1998-12-20T14:55:30+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0009-0072@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Rich Horton",
        "address": "rrhorton at concentric.net"
      },
      "date": "1998-12-20T14:55:30+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Wolfean stuff in Nova Express",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "I just received the latest issue of Nova Express (vol. 5 number 1,\nFall/Winter 1998), Lawrence Person's fine fanzine, and there are two\nitems of particular interest to this list, I would think.\n\nThere is an interview with Mr. Wolfe, conducted by Mr. Person, called\n\"Suns New, Long, and Short\".  Wolfe talks about many subjects.  One\ninteresting comment is that he prefers to write at either the short\nstory length, or the series length.  Novels are hard, he says, because\nif a novel comes in twice as long as planned, it may be unsaleable.\nWhile a 2000 word story that becomes 4000 words is still OK, and a\nseries in which a book doubles in length (as I believe happened with\nthe Book of the New Sun) can easily be extended by a volume.  He also\nhints that the novels in the Short Sun series may be rather long\n(after saying that an 80000 word novel which doubles in size to 160000\nwords may be unsaleable, he mentions that \"all the books in The Book\nof the Short Sun are pushing it\".)\n\n(Patrick Nielsen Hayden reports on rasfw, by the way, that _On Blue's\nWaters_ has been turned in, and is scheduled for Fall 1999).\n\nIncidentally, asked to list some current writers he admires, Wolfe\nmentions among others this list's Patrick O'Leary.  He also mentions\nMantis nicely, even stating that he uses Lexicon Urthus and his other\nbooks as references.\n\nIn addition, this issue of Nova Express includes a fairly long essay\nby Nick Gevers on The Book of the Long Sun, called \"Five Steps toward\nBriah\".\n\n- Tusk"
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          "text": "Rich Horton | rrhorton at concentric.net\nWeb Page: www.sff.net/people/richard.horton  (New reviews of \n_Halfway Human_ and _The Star Fraction_ and _Deepdrive_.)\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0009-0074@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Kevin J. Maroney",
        "address": "kmaroney at crossover.com"
      },
      "date": "1998-12-20T13:43:43+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (whorl) Wolfean stuff in Nova Express",
      "in_reply_to": "<whorl-v0009-0072@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
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          "text": "At 02:55 PM 12/20/98 GMT, you wrote:\n(Patrick Nielsen Hayden reports on rasfw, by the way, that _On Blue's\nWaters_ has been turned in, and is scheduled for Fall 1999)."
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          "text": "I believe that I am not telling tales out of school to mention that David\nHartwell was definitely reviewing the ms when I was at his house on Dec 5.\nHe had not formally accepted the book at that point, but the odds are\nastronomical that he will. \n\nWombat, a.k.a. Kevin Maroney kmaroney at crossover.com\nKitchen Staff Supervisor, New York Review of Science Fiction\nhttp://ebbs.english.vt.edu/olp/nyrsf/nyrsf.html\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
        }
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