(urth) OT: Anathem

[David Duffy]

On Mon, 15 Sep 2008, Adam Thornton wrote:

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> On Sep 15, 2008, at 9:25 PM, brunians at brunians.org wrote:
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>> I've had other people say similar things to me, but I don't see it as all
>> *that* good. But then I don't really like either Pynchon or Gibson either.
>> 
>
> Seriously: the Baroque Cycle is _Gravity's Rainbow_ only set after the 30 
> Years' War rather than after WWII.
>
> Speaking of which: how many other hard-core Pynchon fans are there here?
>

Well I just finished _Against_the_day.  I avoided M&D as too long (read 
all his others), but got sucked in by the first chapter of _AtD_.  I like 
and have read everything of Stephenson's, but I was glad to reach the end 
of the Baroque Cycle ;)

Turning back to Wolfe, Pynchon is interested in a lot of the same things 
-- I think here of power and violence and pulp literature (_atD_ has a few 
Lovecraftian episodes as well as all the edisonades/westerns) and a hard 
science background that is deliberately held lightly -- but slightly 
different politics...and more on-screen sex...and his puns are probably 
better.

David Duffy.