Sneak Peek At Neal Stephenson's "Anathem"

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."

Comments

Hope

[spykemail]

I hope it's as good as Snow Crash!

Plain old English anyone?

[ilovesymbian]

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?

[TornCityVenz]

I for one am just glad he did not decide to write his newest novel in "leetspeak" or "lolcat".

Re:Plain old English anyone?

[fumblebruschi]

Or to put it another way:

Stephenson is, thank God, no Heinlein.

Re:Different excerpt on Amazon

[iplayfast]

They also claim to have used copies available!

Re:Hmmm....

[Anonymous Coward]

Quicksilver-meets-The Silmarillion

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

[hansamurai]

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:Hmmm....

[7Prime]

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.