Jim Knipfel and Pynchon's blurbs

[The Great Quail]

Joe writes,

> I've always thought that COL49 has had a
> bigger cultural impact than GR; it seems to turn up more in popular culture.
> Maybe because it's a little more accessible and the underlying secret
> society/conspiracy/lurking evil thing has a universal appeal in the age of
> paranoia.

Heh heh... A "little" more accessible.... But I totally agree with you. In
fact, I am struck by how many books I've read recently seem to echo COL49 --
William Gibson's "Pattern Recognition," Jim Knipfel's "The Buzzing," and
D.B. Weiss' "Lucky Wander Boy." And I just finished a fantasy novella called
"Dradin in Love" by Jeff VanderMeer that has more than a little "V."

--Quail