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Charles Stross
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I just stubbed my toe on a linguistic thread on reddit (as one does): what sentence can you come up with that would be completely incomprehensible (without a detailed explanation) ten years ago?
Some examples, culled from reddit, to get you started:
hang2er: "I can't get a 4G signal here, I'll skype you on my droid as soon as I hit a hotspot, I need a coffee anyway."
Retinence: "The headline, 'Gal...
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Accelerando
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The Atrocity Archives
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Singularity Sky (Eschaton, #1)
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Halting State
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Glasshouse
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The Jennifer Morgue (Laundry Files, #2)
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Iron Sunrise (Eschaton, #2)
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The Fuller Memorandum (Laundry Files, #3)
— published 2010 — 8 editions |
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Rule 34
— published 2011 — 11 editions |
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Saturn's Children
— published 2008 — 18 editions |
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The Rhesus Chart (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
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Book #5 of The Laundry Files, scheduled for publication in July 2014 (Ace (US), Orbit (UK)).
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“Like the famous mad philosopher said, when you stare into the void, the void stares also; but if you cast into the void, you get a type conversion error. (Which just goes to show Nietzsche wasn't a C++ programmer.)”
― Charles Stross, Overtime
― Charles Stross, Overtime
“--but I find her personality annoying. It's like being molested by a sleeping bag that speaks in Comic Sans with little love-hearts over the i's.”
― Charles Stross, Saturn's Children
― Charles Stross, Saturn's Children
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