Fwd: Re: Comprising confrontations in _GR_

[Mark Wright AIA]

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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