Pynchon mention

[prozak at anus.com]

> > 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.

in the essence of what you're saying, i agree - and feel the same way 
about including a philosophical dilettante like james joyce next to 
william faulkner. but cyberfiction isn't really literature; it's more 
of a pop culture dimension that borrows from literature.

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