Let's talk about Steve Erickson.

Y'all suck.

I know I do.

I've never read any of his books, and his name had not lodged anywhere in my brain. Sorry.

I don't understand how people so familiar with Gibson haven't ever read Erickson. It boggles my mind.

He's another heir of Pynchon and Burroughs.

His themes are similar but he approaches them more like Lynch, if Lynch was a novelist, which he very well may be but simply doesn't publish. Who knows.

Days Between Stations and Tours of the Black Clock are hypnotic.

Hypnotic, people!

The tapestry of the 20th century he weaves is the reverse side of the map pf printed circuitry Linda Lee wears around her head. He's a metaphysical concocter of our current brand of reality as diffused through the Lumiere Bothers!

That said, I still have two of his books unread.

his stuff isn't available in the UK.
steven erickson however is readily available. and of no interest.

steve erikson has in fact been discussed on the board before. as a result i did indeed find a copy of "days between stations" second hand, and read it. it was ok. some nice stuff in it, but in the a bit muddy and disappointing.

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Originally posted by UberDog:
Let's talk about Steve Erickson.

Who?

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Originally posted by UberDog:
The tapestry of the 20th century he weaves is the reverse side of the map pf printed circuitry Linda Lee wears around her head.

That's, like, so last century.

Who's Linda Lee?

And how about?

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Originally posted by Marshdrifter:

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Originally posted by UberDog:
The tapestry of the 20th century he weaves is the reverse side of the map pf printed circuitry Linda Lee wears around her head.

That's, like, so last century.

Last Century was Epic, man.

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Originally posted by RUR:
And how about?

Tell us about it, RUR.

Post Modern fiction from 1981 in which characters have sex with dolphins and suffer from information sickness. Kind of parallel to cbrpnk.

http://books.google.com.pr/books?id=qcd-pFFEtHIC&pg=PA1...snum=2&ct=result%5B/

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Should'nt this be the Slipstream thread?

The reason I probably haven't heard of Steve Erikson before is because I came to William Gibson through the F&SF genre ghetto, not a literary route via Pynchon or Burroughs. In fact, I still haven't read Pynchon or Burroughs either (although at least I've heard of them).

In the 80s it became common for reviewers to link cyberpunk writers to authors outside the F/SF tradition and viceversa. I read Erickson's Days Between Stations because he was compared in reviews to the cyberpunks. The same with Mooney's Easy Travel to Other Planets.
I miss the 80s.

That Mooney books sounds cool. It reminds me of Kobo Abe's Inter Ice Age 4.

Anyone ever read Kobo Abe?