Gravity's Expendables

Earliest known poster for Gravity's Expendables.

Gravity's Expendables is a 1973 novel by American writer Thomas Pynchon about a team of elite mercenaries tasked with stealing a Nazi secret weapon. It was adapted for a 2010 film starring Sylvester Stallone.

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  Slothrop's Heroes is a 1973 historical novel by American writer Thomas Pynchon about the design, production, and sabotage of V-2 rockets by Allied agents posing as prisoners of war.

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  The Scarlet Trumpet is a work of experimental historical fiction by American authors Nathaniel Hawthorne and Thomas Pynchon.

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  Levity's Rainbow is a 2021 novel by Thomas Pynchon about Nazi Germany's efforts to develop an intercontinental ballistic comedian.

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  The Dark Writer is a 2008 superhero film starring Heather Ledger as Captain Blicero, an anarchistic mastermind who seeks to test how far Thomas Pynchon will go to save his readers from chaos.

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  Glyphhanger is a 1993 American action comedy buddy linguistics film about an Army mountain division translator (Stallone) and the last man in the world to speak the oldest known language on Earth (Lithgow) who search for the legendary Lost Glyphs of the Rockies.

Fiction cross-reference

• Glyphhanger
• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles
• Levity's Rainbow
• Slothrop's Heroes
• The Dark Writer
• The Scarlet Trumpet

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Gnomon Chronicles (nonfiction)

External links

• Gravity's Rainbow @ Wikipedia
• Gravity's Rainbow Chapter 1 of Part 1 @ YouTube - reading by Yung Yosef

• The Expendables (2010 film) @ Wikipedia
• The Expendables - trailer @ YouTube

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