1997, Barbara Hambly, Star Wars: Planet of Twilight, Bantam Books (1997), →ISBN, page 154:
But all this, he realized, was something he'd learned over the course of years with the Rebellion, years of dealing with the sophisticated technologies and scientific neepery available on Coruscant and its inner worlds.
1999, Mercedes Lackey & Larry Dixon, The Chrome Borne, Baen Books (1999), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
"…so we've got a LAN hooking up the office, the stable, and the kitchen, since your mom has access to the database if we get a call from a customer and I'm out in the fields," Dad said, as Tannim's head spun under the burden of all the computer neepery.
2012 July 13, David Dyer-Bennet, “Re: purchase”, in alt.usage.english[1] (Usenet):
Technical neepery -- it is not necessary or desirable for rope to grip pulleys.
Noun: "(slang) trivia or highly-detailed information, especially that which an author includes in a work of fiction as a result of research"
2001 January 31, Mike Kozlowski, “Re: Star Wars (was Re: Strom Thurmond Squared)”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom[2] (Usenet):
If we're going to do Star Wars science neepery, let's go right to my favorite -- http://theforce.net/swtc/holocaust.html -- where some people with way too much time on their hands considered the effects on Endor of having the Death Star blow up that close to the planet, conclude that it would have wiped out most life on Endor, and then try to reconcile it with the continuity in Star Wars novels and comics.
2001 March 6, Matthew Austern, “Re: For your blood pressure”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom[3] (Usenet):
Warning, kitchen scale neepery ahead…
2002 August 18, Doug Wickstrom, “Re: Aaaarggghhh!”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom[4] (Usenet):
Muzzles don't have length. Military history neepery courtesy of GeeksRUs.
2005 August 1, Irina Rempt, “Re: units of measurement problems and solutions”, in rec.arts.sf.composition[5] (Usenet):
Ooh, calendar neepery! I actually ended up with seven-day weeks because there were seven gods to call days after, but they don't use "months" as such-- except the Temple of Naigha, see below. )
2006, Nancy Holder, Daughter of the Flames, Silhouette Books (2006), →ISBN, unnumbered page (acknowledgements):
Thank you, SF-FWs, bryant street, IAMTW, and novelscribes for various neepery and encouragement; […]
2006 May 11, Lucy Kemnitzer, “Re: Culture question”, in rec.arts.sf.composition[6] (Usenet):
Warning: _serious_ tomato cultivation neepery. None of which applies to large-scale industrial operations such as you find in Stockton and Modesto.
2007, Keith R. A. DeCandido, Supernatural: Nevermore, HarperEntertainment (2007), →ISBN, page ix (acknowledgments):
[…] to Susan McCrackin for financial aid neepery, […]
2009 November 11, Tim McDaniel, “Re: dollar serial question”, in alt.folklore.urban[7] (Usenet):
(OK, maybe for when my parents lived in Vienna, Virginia, in the 1980s: I dimly recall that for 202 and nearby 301 you *didn't* dial 1+. But this level of trivial obsolete neepery makes *nt*rst*t* h*ghw*y n*mb*r*ng look faaaascinating.)
2011, Steven Harper, Writing the Paranormal Novel: Techniques and Exercises for Weaving Supernatural Elements into Your Story, Writer's Digest Books (2011), →ISBN, page 66:
C. C. Finlay's marvelous book Patriot Witch, the first in his Traitor to the Crown Series, is a beautiful example of a novel that inserts necessary neepery without bogging down the story.
2011 May 12, Raymond E. Feist, “Re: 600,000 People Quit WoW!”, in alt.games.warcraft[8] (Usenet):
The payment model, for example, in Asia is very different than in North America, or Eastern Europe, for example. I'll skip the neepery about how they differ save to point out where they're losing subscribers is also a critical datum.