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		eru 22 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Will I ever own a zettaflop? 'Vibes' was probably the wrong word. I agree with you. Though about the world building: he threw out a lot of neologisms on the page, and later other writers gave them meaning.

ehnto 22 days ago [–]

That's true, I read Neuromancer pretty late, already well primed on the terms of art which smoothed that over a bit. But a lot was left to the imagination.

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