Critic of postmodern fiction, editor and anthologist .

Most postmodern fiction sends me running to highly plotted mystery stories with recurring predictable characters.

This mix of fact and fiction and reality and fantasy makes the novel popular among many who like postmodern fiction.

Now it is a sine qua non of postmodern fiction that there be some reference to a dystopian, brand-names-are-everywhere future.

Some critics have cited the work as an example of postmodern fiction.

The novella is notable for its use of blend of postmodern and Victorian fiction, as well as philosophy and science.

In 2012 Martin Amis described it as a "masterpiece of postmodern fiction ... a really very impressively intricate book."

The novel is often classified as a notable example of postmodern fiction.

Linda Hutcheon claimed postmodern fiction as a whole could be characterized by the ironic quote marks, that much of it can be taken as tongue-in-cheek.

Temporal distortion in postmodern fiction is used in a variety of ways, often for the sake of irony.