What is the author's style in Schismatrix Plus by Bruce Sterling?

While Schismatrix is written primarily in ordinary English, the author intersperses this normalcy with passages that are at first difficult to grasp, but through persistent use, become commonplace to the reader. These exceptions that exist include descriptive passages referring to the many different factions that live in this time period, and the variety of interstellar outposts that have been created as man reaches further and further into space.