Galatea 2.2 weak? Remember that Powers writes great scientists, not great
science. I thought that The Gold Bug Variations was even better.
> For a bit of a Pynchon feel, try Cryptonomicon.
Very good read, but Stephenson is no Pynchon.
Cool book of the week: _The Commissar Vanishes_, a surreal book about
falsified photographs in Stalinist Russia. It's amazing to see the
evolution of some of these photographs - people were removed as they were
shot or shipped off the the Gulag, resulting in pictures that only show a
small fraction of the group that was originally photographed.
John