Kalanadi
Language, xenolinguistics, interspecies communication. This is my favorite topic in science fiction by far. I’ve been asked occasionally for a recommendations video about this, so today I am attempt to deliver.
FYI, I think I called the spiders Sophids but they’re actually Portids. Woopsie.
THINGS MENTIONED
Semiosis by Sue Burke
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35018907-semiosis
Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25499718-children-of-time
Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41716930-children-of-ruin
“Story of Your Life” by Ted Chiang (a.k.a. the movie Arrival)
Everything Is Made of Letters (especially “Learning Report”) by Sofia Rhei
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46200916-everything-is-made-of-letters
Monteverde: Memoirs of an Interstellar Linguist by Lola Robles
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32806405-monteverde
“The Silence of the Asonu” and “The Author of the Acacia Seeds” by Ursula K. Le Guin (also sort of The Telling, which is a Hainish novel)
Foreigner by C.J. Cherryh
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57043.Foreigner
Amatka by Karin Tidbeck
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33518530-amatka
Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/602452.Babel_17
ME ELSEWHERE:
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/kalanadi
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/kalanadi
Instagram: https://instagram.com/kalanadibooks
LibraryThing: https://www.librarything.com/profile/kalanadi
My outro animation is by the wonderful Brock from Let’s Read! (https://www.youtube.com/user/brocksbookbag)
My profile pic is by Dorkabrain (https://www.instagram.com/dorkabrain/)
“Spacial Winds” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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