[Dragaera] Critical terminology (no spoilers)

[Margaret Young]

"Incluing" and "infodumping" were both used in popular (that is, lay)
criticism for years. I think that recently you have more people with "creds"
(professional reviewers, profs, etc.) who have grown up reading critiques
which included those phrases and have started to use them themselves.

I have even seen them used in film criticism. I guess you could say they are
in the process of being mainstreamed.

On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 2:49 PM, David Dyer-Bennet <dd-b at dd-b.net> wrote:

>
> On Wed, January 6, 2010 20:45, Steve Hubbell wrote:
>
> > I have suddenly been running into that term - infodump - a lot lately
> > while reading various people's reviews of the Vlad Taltos series, kind of
> > strange since I had never heard it used before. Is it a relatively new
> > term or expression?
>
> It's an old standard in SF criticism / discussion.
>
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