wpg@mendel.acc.virginia.edu (William Gardner) (03/08/88)
A suggested precursor of cyberpunk fiction: _Gravity's_ Rainbow_, by Thomas Pynchon. Gibson has clearly read it (and liked it). I recommend it if you haven't; it is in every way a more ambitious and radical book than _Neuromancer_. I'd love to be able to write as well as Gibson, I'm sure he'd love to write as well as Pynchon. Bill Gardner wpg@virginia.edu -- William Gardner [] "All my life false and Department of Psychology [] real, right and wrong University of Virginia [] tangled." Charlottesville, VA 22903 [] - Eihei Dogen