Gibson and Pynchon

[Tom Maddox]

	Very nice, Stuart.  The Oedipa Maas/Molly Millions resonance is one
I'd never noticed before.  How about some comment on:

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(5) The way ALL of cyberpunk links back to "HEART-TO-HEART, MAN-TO-MAN"
(and maybe also "NEW DOPE") in GR.  "You had to come back... into a
dying hunk of smelly MEAT..."  This road runs into Burroughs country
too.
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	As an at least nominally cyberpunk writer, I have an interest in such
correlations.

	(Are you still working on or associated with the Hypercard _GR_ that 
you sent me a version of [when you were still at Yale, I believe]?)

	Oh yes--Pynchon and Burroughs as precursors, yes, absolutely; but 
Ballard ought to be tucked in there very closely; the Ballardian semioscape
is constantly present for Gibson, Sterling, me.

	Tom