Bleeding Edge - A Rolling Assessment

[Bekah]

BE is probably most like Pattern Recognition which is the first book in the Blue Ant trilogy,  also the best - imo.   

Which trailer did Gibson love?  Is Pattern Recognition that far along?  

Bekah


On Sep 24, 2013, at 12:28 PM, Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

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