Pynchon mention
David Morris
fqmorris at yahoo.com
Tue Feb 4 14:28:53 CST 2003
--- prozak at anus.com wrote:\
>
> It seems to me that the lineage of cyberfiction is:
>
> Joyce
> Burroughs
> Pynchon
> Gibson
>
> Gibson at least mentioned being inspired by Pynchon's concept of feedback
loops while watching a kid use a video game.
Pardon my objection, but Gibson, decent writer of a particular genre of
Science Fiction that he is, does not belong in a list with these other three.
He's just not that good, nor as ground-breakingly original.
David Morris
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