Sneak Peek At Neal Stephenson's "Anathem" 140
Shawn M. Smith writes "Neal Stephenson (Cryptonomicon, The Baroque Cycle) has a new novel coming out in just a couple weeks — Anathem. Boing Boing has an excerpt from the amazing glossary (including a definition for 'bulshytt') so take a peek at a copy of an abridged glossary of neologisms and language-bending goodies from the book."
Hope (Score:3, Funny)
I hope it's as good as Snow Crash!
Plain old English anyone? (Score:3, Funny)
Maybe I cannot understand this, but why can't people just speak regular plain old English? Doesn't the adage "Caesar cannot change English" apply anymore? This is bulshytt!
Re:Plain old English anyone? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Different excerpt on Amazon (Score:5, Funny)
They also claim to have used copies available!
Re:Hmmm.... (Score:2, Funny)
The Silmarillion proved that Tolkien would unforunately never have enough time on earth to record the complete history of his fantastic world. The Baroque Cycle proved that Stephenson unfortunately had plenty of time to record the complete history of his.
Re:Dictionary for the lazy (Score:3, Funny)
Note: I hate slashdot messing around with the extended characters, and I'm too lazy to fix that ****.
Figured that was a feature of the book.
Re:Plain old English anyone? (Score:4, Funny)
Stephenson is, thank God, no Heinlein.
Re:Hmmm.... (Score:3, Funny)
I get the feeling that, as a small child, Neal Stephenson was once raped by a falling action, and therefor refuses to aknowledge the existance of this litterary device.