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I just realized you saw "spindizzy" before I edited it out -- I didn't know if Cities in Flight was something anybody else remembered. Stand on Zanzibar was fu
by dkarl 6y ago
I just realized you saw "spindizzy" before I edited it out -- I didn't know if Cities in Flight was something anybody else remembered.
Stand on Zanzibar was full of made-up slang, but eptification and mucker stand out in my memory, because eptification was so similar to the automated learning in the Matrix, and mass shootings (and knifings in other parts of the world) are now a normal part of life. I don't think any other writers picked them up and used them in their work, though.
- eesmith 6y agoActually, I didn't see it in an earlier version of your comment. It really was an independent memory from 20 years ago when I contributed a few word and citations to the original project.
- dkarl 6y agoThat's a crazy coincidence. Glad somebody else remembers. Cheers!
- eesmith 6y agoIt is a self-selected audience of HN readers who care enough to read comments on a historical dictionary of SF. ;) FWIW, I have a copy of the 2006 reprint of Blish's 1970 omnibus edition. As I recall, I bought it because I read the term "spindizzy" in the OED effort from 20 years ago, which made me curious.