Neal, Is Pynchon back?

[Arthur Fuller]

I know nothing about Neal, other than what's printed on the covers of his
hardback editions. I vaguely recall that he lives in Seattle, and that he's
got a couple of doctorates, in physics and astronomy (or was it
astrophysics).

All that detail is without consequence. What matters are the books. *Zodiac*
indicated promise. *Snow Crash* launched him into the stratosphere of s-f.
Since then, almost everty work has raised the bar significantly. *The
Baroque Trilogy* did so in spades. Perhaps he did not follow Bruce Sterling
and William Gibson, whose *Difference Engine*, to my knowledge, was the
first s-f novel to go back in time, rather than posit a future. In Neal's
trilogy, he extends this thread in much more (some might say, exhaustive)
detail. Having read a lot about the history of science, and the works of
both Newton and Leibniz, I revelled in reading this part of the trilogy,
but I realize that's an individual and particular fascination.

Finally, I don't mean to detail this list from its original purpose, the
exploration and explication of the works of Thomas Punchon.

Best I find a similar list, devoted to Neal Stephenson and also (another
list) William Gaddis. I'm not sure how to find such lists, shoule they
exist; and if they don't, how to create them.

Can anyone advise me on how to create a new list, and how to let the world
know that it exists?

Thanks.

On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 7:36 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

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Arthur
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