Pynchon mention

[Paul Mackin]

On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 15:28, David Morris wrote:
> 
> --- 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.

Perhaps these names are meant to suggest a regressive linage and
possibly the end of the line.

The Di Fillipo review says Gibson doesn't think science fiction is any
longer possible, qouting from the new book:

"fully imagined cultural futures were the luxury of another day."

However Di F refers to the book as: 

"Gibson's not-quite-sf but not-exactly-not-sf thriller."