Pynchon mentions in Gibson interview

[John Carvill]

Apologies if this has been posted before, but having recently enjoyed
'Pattern Recognition', I was reading up on William Gibson and found this
old interview in which Pynchon is mentioned several times. Pynchon
aside, it's generally quite an interesting interview as well.

 

 

 

LM: Has Thomas Pynchon had an influence on your work? 

 

WG: Pynchon has been a favorite writer and a major influence all along.
In many ways I see him as almost the start of a certain mutant pop
culture imagery with esoteric historical and scientific information.
Pynchon is a kind of mythic hero of mine, and I suspect that if you talk
with a lot of recent SF writers you'll find they've all read Gravity's
Rainbow (1973) several times and have been very much influenced by it. I
was into Pynchon early on- I remember seeing a New York Times review of
V. when it first came out- I was just a kid- and thinking, Boy, that
sounds like some really weird shit!

 

 

http://project.cyberpunk.ru/idb/gibson_interview.html


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