Not Pynchon but SF is Plist topic and somethin' mightta happened here. "gift" to "the whole of our culture" !!?? and a 3-time winner.!!!! And not the first o'ertopping praise I've seen either.

[Mark Kohut]

 I'm gonna put Roth down and zeitgeist the reading of. "An example of
zeitgeist is the free love and progressive thinking of the 1960s."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/24/the-guardian-view-on-science-fiction-the-broken-earth-deserves-its-hugo