The prodigious fiction of Richard Powers, William Vollmann, and David Foster Wallace.

From: CRITIQUE: Studies in Contemporary Fiction | Date: September 22, 1996| Author: LeClair, Tom | Copyright information

The novels of Richard Powers, William T. Vollmann, and David Foster Wallace can be viewed as continuing some of the concerns of Thomas Pynchon, whose writing has influenced all three younger writers. Pynchon's fiction used his science training, and the younger writers treat their novels as long data strings confronting the vast world of information technology presents. The novels of Powers, Vollmann, and Wallace, like those of Pynchon, approach a deformed universe with the awareness that scie...

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