Talk:The Echo Maker

Weber is more commonly compared to Oliver Sacks, I think. Intentional fallacy aside, Powers commented on the overlap in first name and book title with Gerald Edelman in an interview with Stephen J. Burn (Contemporary Literature, Volume 49, Number 2, Summer 2008, pp. 163–179): “I read Edelman’s Bright Air, Brilliant Fire while writing Galatea 2.2, and that book was instrumental in helping form my understanding of the brain and consciousness. That said, I wasn’t conscious of borrowing his first name for my cognitive neurologist. Nor was I aware that he and Weber had hit upon the same Dickinson line for book titles until my book was well into final production. But I must say that I absolutely loved the double coincidence and let it ride as a kind of homage.” —Telofy (talk) 11:24, 25 May 2014 (UTC)