Lowery + Brezny + Pynchon

[Dave Monroe]

I've described Cryptonomicon, at least, as Pynchon
lite, mass market Pynchon, whatever.  But not only are
they in different solar systems, they operate by
different laws of physics.  There's a quantum foam
roiling "under"--or, at any rate, around--Pynchon that
makes Stephenson look positively Newtonian, if not
quite Ptolemaic ...

--- Alex Hunley <athunley at gmail.com> wrote:

> The Stephenson/Pynchon comparison bothers me.  It
> seems to be like a publisher's ploy to get
> impressive blurbs for Stephenson's dust jackets,
> but I've heard it echoed elsewhere.  While, yes,
> they both write idea-laden historical fiction, P's
> language is in a whole different solar system.
> Stephenson strikes me as what might result from a
> synthesis of Pynchon and, say, Stephen King - good
> ideas, but painfully verbose.

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