Thomas Pynchon vs. Charles Stross
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Thomas Pynchon
1760 – 1796
Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. is an American novelist. He is known for his dense, complex works of postmodern fiction, which are distinguished by their paranoid tone, absurd humor, and references to history, art, science, and popular culture.
"It creeped him out, the way it just sat there looking so plastic and harmless among the old-time good intentions of all that downtown architecture, no more sini…"
Charles Stross
1964 – present
Charles David George "Charlie" Stross is a British writer of science fiction and fantasy. Stross specialises in hard science fiction and space opera.
"I head off to the conference room for the Ways and Means Committee meeting—to investigate new ways of being mean, as Bridget once it explained it to me."
Connections
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