Fathers and Sons

[james armstrong]

> > 
> > I don't for a moment doubt Pynchon's influence on the cyberpunks in
> > general, and Gibson in particular.  What I'm not quite so sure of is
> > Gibson's influence on Pynchon, as was claimed by an earlier post.
> 
> Gibson has of course publicly discussed his indebtedness to Pynchon,
> while Pynchon has just as certainly _not_ discussed his influences, at
> least not recently. (An intro to "Slow Learner" written in 1991 or
> later might've shed some light.)
> 
I'm reading "Slow Learner" right now.  Nope, theres no reference to 
Gibson, only to Kerouac and Beat generation events.

Oh a-a-and some travelogues.

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