Bleeding Edge - A Rolling Assessment

Markekohut markekohut at yahoo.com
Tue Sep 24 14:28:08 CDT 2013


More than one person has said this Pynchon is most like a Wm Gibson novel. Anyone, anyone? 
( Gibson loved the trailer famously now) 

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On Sep 24, 2013, at 3:22 PM, "Rev'd Seventy-Six" <revd.76 at gmail.com> wrote:

> *Is* Cosmopolis a 'minor work'?  A lighter one, fer shure, but nowhere near as slight as The Body Artist.
> 
> Oh, ignore me.  I know what you're saying.  Simply quibbling for fun's sake.
> 
> Weirdly, I found Cos. to be the most science-fictional thing D's done in decades...  In much the same way Gibson & P. are plumbing SF as the contemporary condition.



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