LIN 312

THE LANGUAGES OF SCIENCE FICTION

This is a course taught by Mary Shapiro at the University of Texas in Austin. This site has not been updated for a few years, and some of the external links are probably out of date.

Administrative stuff

Course Description	Required Reading
Book Review Assignment	Spoilers
Homework Highlights	Important Linguistic Concepts

More fun stuff

Language in SF movies

Language in the Star Trek Universe

Constructed Languages

SETI: The Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence

Speaking Machines

Speaking Animals

Miscellaneous Links

• U.S.S. Repulse SF Workspace
• SF Resource Guide
• Science Fiction & Fact Pages
• Feminist Science Fiction
• Science Fiction Weekly
• The Dominion (The Scifi Channel)
• Linköping SF & Fantasy Archive
• A good list of SF TV links compiled by Tony Lush.
• Some great SF links from "Jon" at A&M.
• NASA
• NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab
• NASA on Space Settlement
• Mars Atlas
• Views of the Solar System, a fantastic (and huge) site maintained by Calvin J. Hamilton.
• Institute of General Semantics
• International Society for General Semantics
• Cispa
  (a language invented by H. Miller for an intelligent ratlike species)
• The SETI Institute
• WWW Virtual Library: Unidentified Flying Objects

• Useless Technology
• Wild Technology Links
• Transhumanist Resources
• The World Future Society
• Past Predictions of the Future, compiled by the Greater Boston Chapter of the WFS.