Neal Stephenson came along a little late in the game to be considered one of the Web's genuine prophets.
But as the World Wide Web increases its hold on the popular imagination, the searchįor literary antecedents has become in some circles as feverish as any day-trader's hunt for hot Internet stocks. Rainbow,'' that the secretive author was hip to the notion of cyberspace before almost anyone else. Incoming mail! To some Pynchon fanatics, this line doesn't merely anticipate America Online's omnipresent jingle (''You've Got Mail!'') - it's one of many hints, packed into the DNA of ''Gravity's
Scanning the sky, the officer thinks to himself, ''Incoming mail.'' Rocket arc its way toward his position in London. It begins: ''A screaming comes across the sky.'' Less famous - except to a geeky substratum of Pynchon obsessives - is a line that arrives a few paragraphs later, as an Allied officer watches a V-2 Ven if you haven't read ''Gravity's Rainbow,'' Thomas Pynchon's absurdist, 10-ton World War II epic, you know how Neal Stephenson's novel foreshadows an encoded future that had its beginnings in World War II.
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