SciFi elements in "Gravity's Rainbow"?

[Tom Beshear]

Good point. I recall reading an interview with Roth in which he professed 
ignorance of other alternate history fiction. Many literary authors who 
turned to speculative fiction have attempted to reinvent the wheel. That's 
becoming less the case now, with writers like Michael Chabon who have a 
strong reading background in SF.

Potter Stewart could have been a critic.

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Subject: Re: SciFi elements in "Gravity's Rainbow"?


On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Tom Beshear <tbeshear at insightbb.com> 
wrote:

> When Philip Roth writes one, it's called a best-seller.

When Philip Roith writes one, it's called literature.

> The only definition of science fiction I like is from Damon Knight --
> "Science fiction is what we point to when we say it."

"I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I
understand to be embraced ... [b]ut I know it when I see it ...."
--Potter Stewart (1964)

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