The Decline and Fall of SF

[David Casseres]

Brett sez

>I always thought W. Gibson owed a lot to a certain Mr. Brunner, among
>others.  I don't see the Pynchon connection, what am I missing here?
>It's been a while since I read Neuromancer, and I haven't felt like
>going back and rereading it, but I don't remember it seeming
>particularly "Pynchonian".

I find Gibson's approach to his characters rather Pynchonian.  Think 
about Molly Millions, the woman with the mirror-shades implanted in her 
face and the razor blades hidden in her fingertips.  And Gibson's prose 
style is rather like Pynchon's more subdued passages.  But I agree, 
Gibson and cyberpunk owe more to Brunner than to Pynchon.


Cheers,
David