Bleeding Edge - A Rolling Assessment

[Heikki Raudaskoski]

Visit e.g. here:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/05/a-peculiar-peek-at-thomas-pynchons-latest/

"Reaction to the [BE] trailer on Twitter has been mixed. The author
William Gibson called it, "Absolutely the best novel trailer so far in
the history of the world."

On Tue, 24 Sep 2013, Bekah wrote:

> BE is probably most like Pattern Recognition which is the first book in the Blue Ant trilogy,  also the best - imo.
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> Which trailer did Gibson love?  Is Pattern Recognition that far along?
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> Bekah
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> On Sep 24, 2013, at 12:28 PM, Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > 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.
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