Home / languages languages Blog languages From Pravic to Palp-Semaphore: Seven Ingenious Languages in Speculative Fiction By Alex Thomson December 6, 2021 Comment number: 17 Books worldbuilding The 100 May Be Bonkers As Hell, But It Has Some of the Best Worldbuilding on TV By Natalie Zutter April 30, 2019 Comment number: 13 Books The One Book Snow Crash Showed Me the Power of Physical Books By Shawn Sheehy October 15, 2018 Comment number: 4 Books languages Lessons in Fantasy Languages from Harry Potter and The Hobbit By Michael Livingston March 26, 2018 Comment number: 27 Books The Wheel of Time Old and New Tongues: Constructed Languages and The Wheel of Time By Richard Littauer March 19, 2018 Comment number: 32 Featured Essays technology The Universal Translator is Real Now, Get Ready to Make Alien Friends By Emmet Asher-Perrin October 5, 2017 Comment number: 30 Featured Essays holidays This Anglo-Saxon Version of “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” Might Be More Epic Than Beowulf By Stubby the Rocket December 15, 2016 Comment number: 14 News On Our Radar “What Happens Now?” “They Arrive.” Watch the Arrival Teaser Trailer By Natalie Zutter August 9, 2016 Comment number: 2 News On Our Radar Your First Look at Arrival, the Adaptation of Ted Chiang’s Novella Story of Your Life By Natalie Zutter August 8, 2016 Comment number: 7 Featured Essays Shakespeare Unreliable Histories: Language as Power in The Tempest By Katharine Duckett December 31, 2015 Comment number: 2 Books Five Books About Five Books with Invented Languages By David J. Peterson September 29, 2015 Comment number: 31 Books Podcasts Midnight in Karachi Episode 24: Aliette de Bodard By Mahvesh Murad August 6, 2015 Comment number: 2 1 2 3