"If You Liked My Book, You'll Love..."

[Thomas Beshear]

Gibson's list consists only of books published in genre. Dhalgren was 
massively important to so many young sf writers-to-be of his generation who 
read it at just the right moment. The cyberpunk movement is impossible to 
imagine without either Dhalgren or Tiger, Tiger (The Stars My Destination), 
which he also includes.
Dhalgren's consciousness is very sixties centered -- I think of Gravity's 
Rainbow as being much broader in historical affect, though strongly informed 
by the sixties, of course. But it would be a good question to put to 
Gibson -- he has a book coming out. Maybe someone could ask him about this 
at one of his appearances.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Kohut" <markekohut at yahoo.com>
To: "Henry M" <scuffling at gmail.com>
Cc: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 7:28 AM
Subject: Re: "If You Liked My Book, You'll Love..."


> Surpised at Gibson, who knows Pynchon's work. That Dahlgren is singled out 
> as
> THE great sixties novel is.........his way of being contrary?
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> So it goes.
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Henry M <scuffling at gmail.com>
> To: Pynchon Liste <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Tue, June 1, 2010 6:52:44 AM
> Subject: "If You Liked My Book, You'll Love..."
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> No Pynchon
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> http://nymag.com/arts/books/features/66294/index2.html
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> AsB4,
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> Henry Mu
> http://astore.amazon.com/tdcoccamsaxe-20
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