Vineland - Thomas Pynchon Gift A plan that will shake

A plan that will shake Mount Olympus to its very core

artificial intelligence threatens anthropogenic disaster – disaster caused by our own activities

this book shows us the power of owning our convictions and acting in accordance with our beliefs - and the perils of an ill-formed conscience

Poe hopes you've been paying attention

hopeful… and wary

Vineland - Thomas Pynchon Gift A plan that will shakeVineland, a zone of blessed anarchy in northern California, is the last refuge of hippiedom, a culture devastated by the sobriety epidemic, Reaganomics, and the Tube. Here, in an Orwellian 1984, Zoyd Wheeler and his daughter Prairie search for Prairie's long lost mother, a Sixties radical who ran off with a narc. Vineland is vintage Pynchon, full of quasi allegorical characters, elaborate unresolved subplots, corny songs ("Floozy with an Uzi"), movie