alt Hacker NewsGibson jumps into lingo as if we knew what the hell it meant (and we didn’t) so we felt the disorientation ourselves.
Such an amazing book. I eventually tracked down a signed first edition.
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nilsherzig • today at 4:53 PM
Neal Stephensons Anathem did that do me, took me quite a lot of pages to get behind some of the words. Loved that. Can you recommend other authors who do that?
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I'm reading The Peripheral (2014) by William Gibson, and it does exactly this. The lingo starts on page one, and then it's meaning is slowly revealed throughout the book. I don't know if this pattern has a name, but it's very pronounced.