linguistic SF

[Mark A. Mandel]

Arnold inquit:


somewhere there's an annotated bibiography of sf stories/books in which
language issues and/or linguists figure prominently.



We wantssssss it, preciousssssssss!

from my PDA, a recommendation from a friend:


Hellspark, Janet Kagan. copyright 1988; 1998 Meisha Merlin trade-paperback
edition. "If you haven't read it, I think you'd get a kick out of it.  It's
set in a Galactic society where there are many cultures and they don't
understand each other well.  It's partly about the definition of sapience
and partly linguistic SF about the importance of non-verbal cues. -- I liked
it."



I read it. I loved it.

-- Mark A. Mandel
[This text prepared with Dragon NaturallySpeaking.]