TRP & Steampunk

[David Casseres]

>The catalog description of MASON & DIXON leads me to hastily want
>to lump ther new TRP, sight unseen, into the "steampunk" category:
>po-mo reimaginings of the Victorian/Edwardian era employing a 
>comic tone, in an attempt to fathom the roots of our present.  See
>Gibson & Sterling's THE DIFFERENCE ENGINE, Doctorow's WATERWORKS,
>and my own THE STEAMPUNK TRILOGY.  Thoughts thereon???

I'm not familiar with your trilogy, but I hated The Difference Engine and 
was disappointed by Waterworks, thoug Gibson, Sterling, and Doctorow are 
among my favorite writers.  Another bad example of the genre, if such it 
is, was that piece of tripe about the flying horse, by the appalling Mark 
Helprin.

I trust your trilogy is a counteraxample to these, and I guarantee that 
nothing by Pynchon will resemble them except in terms of period.

Cheers,
David