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  "thread": {
    "id": 690,
    "subject": "Digest whorl.v010.n033",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "1999-10-14T09:11:00+00:00",
    "last": "1999-10-15T07:09:01+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0010-0111@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "David Langford",
        "address": "ansible at cix.compulink.co.uk"
      },
      "date": "1999-10-14T09:11:00+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Re: Digest whorl.v010.n033",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
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          "depth": 0,
          "text": "In-Reply-To: <199910132310.QAA09996 at lists1.best.com>\n\nAlastair Reynolds wrote, of Wolfe:"
        },
        {
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          "depth": 1,
          "text": "And I believe in one of\nq&a sessions I have read, either on this list or on the web somewhere,\nhe said he envisaged Severian's time as being about a 1000 years from\nnow (which always struck me as too short a span of time, but never\nmind)."
        },
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          "text": "This has come up before. An on-line chat session included the following:\n\nQ: About how far, really, is the New Sun series set in our future (or the \nfuture of the previous universe)? How much time elapses between Typhon \nand Severian?\n\nWolfe: That is never specified in the books. My offhand guess is between \n1000 and 2000 years. I would have to reread the books with care to \nperhaps trim the estimate up a little bit.\n\nWolfe is surely answering the second question rather than the first, \nsince passages in BotNS suggest a serious geological timespan between our \nage and Severian's (e.g. the fault-cliff in =Sword= which exposes three \nmiles of vertically stacked human relics).\n\nDave\n\nDavid Langford\nansible at cix.co.uk | http://www.ansible.demon.co.uk/\n\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0010-0114@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Alastair Reynolds",
        "address": "areynold at estsa2.estec.esa.nl"
      },
      "date": "1999-10-15T07:09:01+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (whorl) Re: Digest whorl.v010.n033",
      "in_reply_to": "<whorl-v0010-0111@digest.urth.net>",
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          "text": "David, in my reply to my query:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Q: About how far, really, is the New Sun series set in our future (or the \nfuture of the previous universe)? How much time elapses between Typhon \nand Severian?\n\nWolfe: That is never specified in the books. My offhand guess is between \n1000 and 2000 years. I would have to reread the books with care to \nperhaps trim the estimate up a little bit.\n\nWolfe is surely answering the second question rather than the first, \nsince passages in BotNS suggest a serious geological timespan between our \nage and Severian's (e.g. the fault-cliff in =Sword= which exposes three \nmiles of vertically stacked human relics)."
        },
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          "text": "Many thanks for digging that up. Yes - he's obviously talking about the gap\nbetween Severian and Typhon rather than the era of the Urth. I must have\nskimmed the second part of the question when I read the q&a originally\nand assumed the answer referred to the first part - which troubled me,\nbecause - as you say - the timescale feels so geological.\n\nAl\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
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