Pynchon comparison ...

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in the Salon review of Carter Scholz's _Radiance_:

"In this Pynchonesque tale of technocracy in the Clinton years, two rival
physicists working in a weapons lab play footsie with the apocalypse.

[ ... ]

Scholz may remind readers of Thomas Pynchon at some moments and J.G. Ballard
at others. "Radiance" is not science fiction but an argument that science
has become fiction; not an account of an imaginary apocalypse but a claim
that apocalypse was already to be seen in the sprawl and the pollution and
the death wish of California technocracy in the early Clinton years. If the
plot of "Radiance" is a tangled knot of deception, self-deception and
conspiracy leading only to exhaustion and despair, it's Scholz's
extraordinary language - his ear for befuddled dialogue and scientific
obfuscation, his resonant, haunted landscapes - that crack the book open and
allow its light to blaze forth."

http://www.salon.com/books/review/2002/02/21/scholz/index.html

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