Bleeding Edge - A Rolling Assessment

[Tom Beshear]

I think BE and VL are both similar Gibson's post-Sprawl work.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Markekohut" <markekohut at yahoo.com>
To: "Rev'd Seventy-Six" <revd.76 at gmail.com>
Cc: "Bekah" <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>; "P-List" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2013 3:28 PM
Subject: Re: Bleeding Edge - A Rolling Assessment


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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