Yay, I like the maxim! Your post reminded me a lot of my first reading of William Gibson which was Neuromancer. I flailed about in delight for the first 50 pages at least, having no clue but swimming along through the texture and the language and slowly noting it all come together until, wham, another opaque thing was introduced and the process started over again. It was a fantastic reading experience. I was then hooked on W. Gibson and read all the other books he'd published at that time, and found out that even though Neuromancer was the FIRST in a trilogy, he'd written lots of short stories set in the same universe with lots more exposition.
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branchandroot
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Date: 2011-09-18 11:01 pm (UTC)So, yes: the maxim holds!