From: utzoo!watmath!bstempleton Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Title: Pynchon Article-I.D.: watmath.4638 Posted: Thu Feb 24 22:14:39 1983 Received: Fri Feb 25 09:13:31 1983 This is for a friend who is not on the net: Does anybody know where Pynchon is these days? I think Gravity's Rainbow is one of the very few examples of **true** science fiction in that he uses scientific metaphor (entropy, systems theory) in formulating this work. The same is true of his other works, notably Entropy and The Crying of Lot 49. The reason his stories "peter out" is that the actual form and content of his works reflect his concerns in the scientific and the fantastic. See Tony Tanner's book "Thomas Pynchon" among others for more on this. Jamie Roberts University of Waterloo. reply to bstempleton@watmath.uucp