_Saucer Wisdom_ + Pynchon mention

[Doug Millison]

Hit the send key too quickly. The Salon review includes some interview
material from Rudy Rucker. As he did when I spoke with him last year,
Rucker reaffirms Pynchon as an influence on his writing:

Rucker:
"I've often said that my work might more accurately be termed "transreal"
than cyberpunk, "transreal" being a word that I coined to mean science
fiction based on one's immediate life and daily perceptions. But certainly
I have a lot of affinity with the cyberpunks. They're my friends, they're
my favorite SF writers, I collaborate with them, and so on. In
self-aggrandizing moments I think of us as an '80s version of the Beats.
The Beats were indeed some of my biggest literary influences, also Thomas
Pynchon and Jorge Luis Borges."

The new Rudy Rucker novel sounds like fun, especially, maybe,  for Pynchon
fans who liked the aliens in Vineland and the otherworldly visitors in
Mason & Dixon.

http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/1999/06/30/rucker_interview/index.html

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