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[John M. Krafft]

From:	MIAVX2::JMKRAFFT     "John M. Krafft" 21-MAR-1992 11:44:57.80
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Subj:	Re: Pynchon and Gibson (again)

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From: evenson at hitl.washington.edu (Mark Evenson)
Subject:Re: Pynchon and Gibson (again)
Date: 20 Mar 92 01:03:04 GMT
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Having finished _Storming the reality studio:  a casebook of cyberpunk and
postmodern fiction_, I think you might find this book an interesting
reference for your questions about the relationship between Gibson and
Pynchon.

I don't have the book with me right now, but at some part in the anthology
in an essay on cyberpunk's relation to postmodernist fiction, someone
suggests your thesis, namely that Pynchon consciously apes Gibson in
_Vineland_.  I think there's too little evidence to argue for this, but
this author suggests a neat image of re-injection, re-proliferation of
influence across generes and styles.  

I am more interested in your argument after reading this book, and really
enjoyed this kind of provisionally treatement of an intellectual history of
cyberpunk.