Steve Erickson: C/D and all that

I have just read Steve Erickson's third novel 'Tours Of The Black Clock'. I think he is probably now my favourite writer. This is an extraordinary tale starting with a contemporary American teenager then leaping backwards to a man who eventually finds himself as Hitler's personal pornographer, and who thereby changes history - very strong echoes of Dick's 'The Man In The High Castle' here. It is anything but a realistic novel of the Third Reich, rather a novel modelled explicitly on the removal of scientific certainties by Einstein and others in the 20th Century, a definitively Modernist work and one inherently about Modernism (which probably makes it postmodern, haha). Anyway, I have rarely, maybe never, read a book which made my jaw drop so often, and made me feel so tense, not in the thriller way of worrying about the fate of the protagonist, but in fear of what the next line would bring, of what dizzying or appalling thing would be set before me next by Erickson. I may need to go back and reread 'Arc d'X', which uses some of the same devices of inexplicable linkages between characters unconnected in space or time, and has the same kind of central character in strange relation to a key historical figure - in Arc, Jefferson's slave-mistress.

But he's hardly a major literary figure, and I've had little chance to read or talk about him. There must be some others here who have read him - what do you make of his work?