Technical Jargon

RudelRammler

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I am looking for an English novel that uses technical jargon thats useful for a KMK foreign language certificate for mechatroniks. The novel shouldn't be too dry to read thought. Thanks for any suggestions!
 

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About a third of the Star Trek novels do this, if you mean "technobabble" and not "actual technical jargon" - especially the "The Next Generation" era books. One of the best for this might be "Relics" - the novelization of the episode where they brought Scotty from the original series into the show.
There is also an audionovel called "The Mech Touch" on PocketFM that gets into this, but it takes a while (about 120 chapters) before any jargon that a non-Battletech player would not already know creeps in (if you've never played Battletech, then the jargon comes in at chapter 2).
Can't recall titles at the moment, but a lot of the Isaac Asimov stuff I read in my teens got into the jargon (on the other hand, the first book I ever picked up and gave up on reading three chapters in was his non-fiction book about lasers - way too much technical jargon for me).
 

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Hmm, I guess it shouldn't be too bad if the jargon is unrealistic. I just need it for the vocabulary after all. I'll definitely look into battletech and Asimovs books. Thanks for the reply.
 

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If you're looking for webnovels, mine fits the bill, though it might be a tad dry. Lots of technical (and in many cases accurate, save for certain magic parts) engineering. The earlier couple of volumes are stone-age tech for the most part, but we're talking aircraft and ships in the current volume, and have been dealing with roughly industrial era for a few volumes now.
 
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