SF in TRP's life

[Jay Herzog]

 I think it was a Guggenheim grant and he proposed to adapt either "The
Stars my Destination" or Fahrenheit 451(the melodrama of "Stars" would
have been perfect for opera). I think this attests to Pynchon's reading of
SF during his formative years..... 

On Thu, 27 Mar 1997, John Boylan wrote:

>   Didn't Pynchon write a grant proposal around '60, wanting to write a
> libretto for a SF opera? I believe in the proposal he mentioned how
> influenced he was by the SF out at the time, though I don't think he
> named names. My guess : Alfred Bester, 'The Demolished Man' and 'The
> Stars My Destination'; maybe Ray Bradbury, probably Philip K. Dick
> ( 'Time Out of Joint' had been published the year before ).
>