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Linguistics in Science Fiction
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I've always been fascinated by linguistics, especially how it's stretched in Science Fiction. These are some of the best SciFi books I've found that use the medium to make great insights into languages.
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Linguistics in Science Fiction
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icon Babel-17/Empire Star (Vintage) | This is, perhaps, the best...
icon Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand | Less direct or poignant than...
icon The Embedding | A little oblique, the musings on language and...
icon Snow Crash (Bantam Spectra Book) | Brilliant and about so much more...
icon Native Tongue | A future where linguists are the elite.
icon Language, Thought, and Reality:... | Not SciFi and much of it is...
icon The Mote in God's Eye | Not as much about language as about culture
icon The Inheritors | About the significance of language in our own...
icon 1984 | Orwell's classic about the power of controlling language.
Contact | Not so much about language differences but encoding and...
The Poison Oracle | Not aliens, but still science fiction.
TONGUES OF THE MOON. | A great description of multi-lingualism.
icon Dune (Dune Chronicles, Book 1) | Careful, intricate languages but...
Jewel Hinged Jaw: Notes on the... | Notes on writing science...
King of the Sea | Not fiction but about dolphins and language....
icon The Klingon Dictionary (Star Trek) | Not about linguistics so much...
icon Star Trek The Next Generation - The... | Season 5, Episode 2: Darmok....
icon The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | More of a cop-out on the...
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john says:
Great idea for a collection, and something I hadn't previously given much thought to -- the repeating motif of language in in sci-fi.

'A Clockwork Orange' would be a good addition here, with it's Russiany slang.
- Posted on 8/31/2006 1:38am

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