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Friday, 14 March 2008

Alien Languages and Futuristic Slang

Eastern Michigan University (with the help of Suzette Haden Elgin) have compiled a wonderful list of alien languages, futuristic slang, animal languages and other adventures in words.

Here's a few from the main list at the Linguistics in SciFi Book List

Confluence — Brian Aldiss (1967)
Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" in Ficciones — Jorge Luis Borges (1956)
"The Dance of the Changer and the Three" Terry Carr (1969)
40000 In Gehenna — C.J. Cherryh (1983)
Babel–17 — Samuel R. Delany (1966)
Stars in my Pocket like Grains of Sand — Samuel R Delany (1984)
We Have Always Spoken Panglish — Suzette Haden Elgin (2004)
Flight Of The Dragonfly — Robert L. Forward (1984)
"A Tangled Web" in Dealing in Futures — Joe Haldeman (1985)
The Haunted Stars — Edmond Hamilton (1960)
West of Eden — Harry Harrison (1984)
Red Planet — Robert A. Heinlein (1949)
Stranger in a Strange Land — Robert A. Heinlein (1961)
Inherit The Stars — James P. Hogan (1977)
Hellspark — Janet Kagan (1988)
Not So Certain — David I. Masson (1967)
Weltgeist Superstar — P.M. (1980)
"Omnilingual", in Federation — H. Beam Piper (1981)
Contact — Carl Sagan (1985)
After Long Silence — Pamela Sargent (1987)
Psychaos — E. P. Thompson
"A Martian Odyssey" in SF Hall Of Fame — Stanley Weinbaum (1934)
Surfacing — Walter Jon Williams (1988)
"A Rose for Ecclesiastes" in SF Hall Of Fame — Roger Zelazny (1963)
Eye of Cat — Roger Zelazny (1982)

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(found on Annalee Newitz's http://io9.com/ )