Fwd: Re: Comprising confrontations in _GR_

[Dave Monroe]

I just think a lot of us were better prepraed for Gravity's Raibow than yr
average lit professor, much less commercial-press critic, at the the time,
is all (and I only read it a dosen years after the fact) ...

Mark Wright AIA wrote:

> Howdy
>
> > --- Dave Monroe <monroe at mpm.edu> wrote:
> > > At the science fiction end, Pynchon is writing in
> > > the wake of the SF "New Wave," Ballard, Ellison, Moorcock, Aldiss,
> > > Delaney, et al. (a wave that would in turn find itself quite
> > > willfully
> > > in Pynchon's wake), which would already find itself in "tension"
> > with
> > > "realist," realism-aspiring SF.
>
> I was a big fan of the good ol' SF -- old wave, new wave, wavin' wave,
> whathaveyou.  The *big* sociologically oriented SF such as Brunner's
> "Stand on Zanzibar" especially...
> OH wep now for my misspent my youth!  Read GR the first time and have
> Never Ever been able to go back, though I do try once in a while.  The
> *pride* those guys took in the big thick worlds they invented!
> Pikers! Pheebs! TRP wiped out the entire genre -- GR a salty tsunami,
> the fist of a god, a Krakatoa, a luminous and perfect moon torn from
> the gaping flesh of the living Earth, a, a, a (ah choo)
> mercy.
> I need more coffee.
> Mark
>
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