Pynchon mention

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> I agree that to me Gibson's novels (except "Neuromancer" maybe) always
> seemed to be relatively weak, even as sf-novels, but when I read stories
> like "Johnny Mnemonic" and "Burning Chrome" I have to admit that this guy
> has written better short stories than our man.

Gibson however writes conventional narratives, where it seems to me 
that Pynchon's stuff is thought-association-collage wrapped into a 
postmodern narrative.

> This source defines cyberfiction as: "Science fiction embodying the
> technological ideas of cyberpunk, without necessarily embodying cyberpunk's
> amoralism or nihilism."
> http://www.homoexcelsior.com/omega.db/datum/fiction/cyberfiction/53

What a very PC definition.

> What I do believe is that Pynchon's and Burroughs' novels (and of course
> Philip K. Dick's novels, not to forget John Brunner's "The Sheep Look Up"
> too) have influenced the cyberpunk-authors.

I agree with this. There's also Bruce Sterling, who unlike those 
authors was to some degree in touch with the hacking community while 
it existed (it's now extinct).

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