Physics and Fantasy: Scientific Mysticism, Kurt Vonnegut, and Gravity's Rainbow
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Jump to navigationJump to searchBlackford, Russell. "Physics and Fantasy: Scientific Mysticism, Kurt Vonnegut, and Gravity's Rainbow." JPC 19.3 (Winter 1985): 35-44.
Argues against distortions of work by Vonnegut and Thomas Pynchon "by naive critics purveying related brands of popular mysticism" (35). Follows T. Wymer on "The Swiftian Satire of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr." (q.v. this Category) in holding that Slaughterhouse-Five is not fatalistic. Continues the line of argument for Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow (43).