Friday, June 04, 2010  Book Chat 27  Book Chat 27: Charles
Stross/ Halting State  ‪Evil Editor‬ said...So...I can see how
the use of gaming terms, acronyms, Britishisms, made-up words
would be intimidating at first. But when you consider that the
story is being told in the present tense but is set in the
future, you have to concede that the POV characters are using
terms they assume their audience knows. Thus the author lets us
figure out what the terms mean or ignore them, rather than
insert a character who needs everything explained to him or
pause with frequent info-dumps. So what was irritating at first,
I found brilliant eventually.  ‪fairyhedgehog‬ said...I
preferred the "guess from context" method to an info dump.
‪Dave F.‬ said...I don't mind techno-speak in a book but then,
I'm a technical person. While I was reading this I kept the
computer next to me and searched out the terms. The colloquial
terms were harder. NED for one.  ‪fairyhedgehog‬ said...I think
one of the narrators said that "ned" was S