OT: Anathem

James Crossley · 16 Sep 2008, 15:40 · from 2008-September.txt.gz

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From: ishmael at drizzle.com (James Crossley)
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 08:40:29 -0700
Subject: (urth) OT: Anathem
In-Reply-To: <56E579CC-4AA9-4DAF-8140-6DA2F0E57A1B at io.com>
Message-ID: <C4F5217D.78C2%ishmael at drizzle.com>

On 9/15/08 9:33 PM, "Adam Thornton" <adam at io.com> wrote:
> 
> If you want Pynchonesque Stephenson, it'd have to be the Baroque
> Cycle: really really long, full of awful puns, and dotted with
> occasional non-sequitur musical numbers.
> 
> 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?
> 
I'm one.  And I've liked Stephenson in the past because of his Pynchon-lite
qualities, but--and it feels strange to say this--I wish he could write as
tightly as Pynchon.

James

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