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“Mind records are the one true forever”: Translation and Dead Languages in Marie Brennan’s Turning Darkness Into Light

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Expressing Culture Through Language in A Memory Called Empire

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Lang Belta: The Language of The Expanse

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Predators, Prey, Honor: Linguistic Worldbuilding in C.J. Cherryh’s Hunter of Worlds

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Language, Warfare, and the Brain as Computer: Babel-17

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The Signifier and the Signified: Semiotics and China Miéville’s Embassytown

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When Speech Is an Assault: Linguistics and First Contact in Peter Watts’ Blindsight

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“Law and order were nothing—not even words any longer”: Types of Aphasia and Octavia Butler’s “Speech Sounds”

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Linguistics in Arrival: Heptapods, Whiteboards, and Nonlinear Time

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Good Fiction, Questionable Science: The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis

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“A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt.”

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand Of Darkness

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