From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!eagle!mhuxt!mhuxj!mhuxi!macrev Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Title: Riverworld: Farmer vs. Pynchon Article-I.D.: mhuxi.1102 Posted: Tue Feb 22 07:11:47 1983 Received: Wed Feb 23 01:05:05 1983 "Riverworld" disappointed me too, but I think pynchon would only have made it worse. He seems to prefer a lot of little climaxes to blowing his wad in one big one, and as a result his stories ("V," "Gravity's Rainbow") have a tendency to peter out at the end. If Farmer had gone to Zelazny with his ideas, "Riverworld" might have been a more satisfying story. Mike Lynch