( Steampunk) Tim Powers on Pynchon influence

[Ya Sam]

That interview makes me think about some article by Brian McHale in which he 
writes about postmodern writers like Pynchon influencing cyberpunk (and 
steampunk) authors:

"Then there's some people where I simply pick up plot tricks, like Thomas 
Pynchon. I think I'm constantly doing Pynchon tricks in my plotting. You 
know, dropping weird outlandish clues that can't possibly be related, but 
seem to be anyway. And almost mystical weird junk showing up in—in junk, in 
litter and trashy newspapers and clues from papers. So there's a lot of 
people I pick up plot tricks from, but not really style tricks. I'm always 
afraid that Pynchon might one day look at one of my books and think, “Boy, 
if you took away V and Crying of Lot 49 from this guy, this would be a very 
slim book.”...

http://www.depauw.edu/sfs/interviews/powers74interview.htm

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