pynchon-l-digest V1 #49

[Tom Maddox]

"Steely" writes:

>Hey, hg, mail order a copy of Halo, right now. Or there's a great short story,
>that's been widely anthologized (perhaps even in Cybershades, can't
>remember) titled Love Among the Robots (or something like that). Maddox's
>prose has a purity and intelligence to it that makes some of Sterling's and
>Gibson's best stuff look trite and contrived by comparison. Maddox also
>wrote a kickass dissertation on Gravity's Rainbow, titled Rocket Blues, if
>I recall. Out of all of the sadly named cyberpunks, only Maddox and John
>Shirley seem destined to write "big books."


You can find Halo at the WELL Gopher:

gopher://gopher.well.sf.ca.us/11/Publications/authors/maddox/halo

And "The Robot and the One You Love" at:

http://192.211.16.13/curricular/virtual_college/dorseyb/maddox/robot.html

>Incredulous, hg exclaims: "John LeCarre? r u serius??"

I would be.  When Wm. Gibson and I first met in the early 80s, our shared
enthusiasms included Pynchon, Wm. Burroughs, and Le Carre.

Tom Maddox