Bibliotheca Sagittarii

Languages And Linguistics In Science Fiction And Fantasy

Version 3.0 By David Solly

© Copyright 1995-1996 David Solly

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Lang_Author:

Author: Albani, Paolo & Berlinghiero Buonarroti

Title: Aga magera difura : dizionario delle lingue immaginarie

Article:

Imprint: Bologna : Zanichelli, 1994

Language: *

Collection of essays

ISSN_ISBN

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Lang_Author:

Author: Castle, Nick, director

Title: Last starfighter, The

Article:

Imprint:

Language: Rigalese

ISSN_ISBN

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Lang_Author:

Author: Delany, Samuel R. (editor)

Title: Jewel-hinged jaw : notes of the language of science fiction

Article:

Imprint: N.Y. : Berkley Pub. Corp., c1977. -- SBN: 425-093852-1

Language: Essays on S/F with some material on languages/linguistics

ISSN_ISBN

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Lang_Author:

Author: Dick, Philip K.

Title: Blade runner (the motion picture)

Article:

Imprint:

Language: [Gutter speak]

ISSN_ISBN

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Lang_Author:

Author: Edwards Barns, Myra

Title: Linguistics and language in science fiction/fantasy

Article:

Imprint: N.Y. : Arno, 1975

Language: *

Collection of essays

ISSN_ISBN

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Lang_Author:

Author: Frdnkel, Gerd

Title: Internat. Lang. Rev.

Article: Constructed languages in fiction

Imprint: 26, 1962

Language: Essay on languages

ISSN_ISBN

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Lang_Author:

Author: Henson, Jim

Title: Dark crystal, The

Article:

Imprint: US : Jim Henson Video, c1994. -- VHS, NTSC

Language: Podling, Gelfling (written only)

ISSN_ISBN 1558907912

A/V: Y Book: Serial: Comic:

Lang_Author:

Author: Ing, Dean

Title: Cathouse

Article:

Imprint:

Language: Kazinti (Old), Kazinti (Modern)

ISSN_ISBN

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Lang_Author:

Author: Lucas, George

Title: Star wars

Article:

Imprint:

Language: [Batchi], Wookie, Jawa

ISSN_ISBN

A/V: Y Book: Serial: Comic:

Lang_Author:

Author: Meyers, Walter E.

Title: Aliens and linguists : language study and science fiction

Article:

Imprint: Athens, GA : U. of Georga Pr., [1992]

Language: Collection of papers

ISSN_ISBN 0820304875

A/V: Book: Y Serial: Comic:

Lang_Author:

Author: Prosner, Chip; John Drimmer

Title: Iceman

Article:

Imprint:

Language: Language not named

ISSN_ISBN

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Lang_Author:

Author: Roddenberry, Gene

Title: Star trek TNG : Darmok

Article:

Imprint:

Language: Tamarian (aka Darmok)

ISSN_ISBN

A/V: Y Book: Serial: Comic:

Lang_Author:

Author: Roddenberry, Gene

Title: Star trek TNG : the big good-bye

Article:

Imprint:

Language: Jarada (aka Harada)

ISSN_ISBN

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Lang_Author: Aldiss, Brian

Author:

Title: Confluence

Article:

Imprint:

Language: *

ISSN_ISBN

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Lang_Author: Arbogast, Anne

Author: Lucas, George

Title: Star wars: the return of the Jedi

Article:

Imprint:

Language: Huttese

ISSN_ISBN

A/V: Y Book: Serial: Comic:

Lang_Author: Auel, Jean M.

Author:

Title: Mammoth Hunters, The

Article:

Imprint: Toronto : Bantam, c1985. -- (Earth Children, 3)

Language: [Clan], [Ayla's mother tongue], Zelandonii, Mamutoi

ISSN_ISBN 0553260960

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Lang_Author: Beam-Piper, H.

Author:

Title: Federation

Article: Naudsonce

Imprint: N.Y. : Ace, c1981. -- p. 57

Language: Svantese

ISSN_ISBN 0441231896

A/V: Book: Y Serial: Comic:

Lang_Author: Beam-Piper, H.

Author:

Title: Federation

Article: Omnilingual

Imprint: N.Y. : Ace, c1981. -- p. 2.

Language: Martian

ISSN_ISBN 0441231896

A/V: Book: Y Serial: Comic:

Lang_Author: Beam-Piper, H.

Author:

Title: Fuzzies and other people

Article:

Imprint: N.Y. : Ace, c1984. -- "Long lost third Fuzzy novel"--t.p.

Language: Fuzzy (Gashta)

ISSN_ISBN 0441261760

A/V: Book: Y Serial: Comic:

Lang_Author: Beam-Piper, H.

Author:

Title: Fuzzy papers, The

Article:

Imprint: N.Y. : Ace, c1962, 1980

Language: Fuzzy (Gashta), Yaggdrasil Khooghra

ISSN_ISBN 0441261930

A/V: Book: Y Serial: Comic:

Lang_Author: Beam-Piper, H.

Author: Mayhar, Ardath

Title: Golden dream : a Fuzzy odyssey.

Article:

Imprint: N.Y. : Ace, c1982. -- Includes notes and glossary of the

Fuzzy (Gashta) language.

Language: Fuzzy (Gashta)

ISSN_ISBN 0441297293

A/V: Book: Y Serial: Comic:

Lang_Author: Beam-Piper, H.

Author: Tuning, William

Title: Fuzzy bones

Article:

Imprint: N.Y. : Ace, c1981

Language: Fuzzy (Gashta)

ISSN_ISBN 0441261817

A/V: Book: Y Serial: Comic:

Lang_Author: Brin, David

Author:

Title: Startide rising

Article:

Imprint: Toronto : Bantam, c1983, 1993

Language: Galactic 1-10; Anglic; Neo Dolphin; Tymbrimi [gloss]

ISSN_ISBN 055327418X

A/V: Book: Y Serial: Comic:

Lang_Author: Brin, David

Author:

Title: Uplift war, The

Article:

Imprint: Toronto : Bantam, c1987 (1993 printing)

Language: Galactic 1-10; Anglic; Neo-Dolphin; Tymbrimi [gloss]

ISSN_ISBN 0553279718

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Lang_Author: Burgess, Anthony

Author:

Title: Clockwork orange, A

Article:

Imprint:

Language: Nadsat

ISSN_ISBN

A/V: Book: Y Serial: Comic:

Lang_Author: Burgess, Anthony

Author: Rosny, J.H., Sr., story; Jean-Jacques Annaud, director

Title: Quest for fire (La guerre du feu)

Article:

Imprint:

Language: Ulam, Ivaka, Kzamm, Wagabou [language?]

ISSN_ISBN

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Lang_Author: Burtt, Ben

Author: Lucas, George

Title: Star wars: the return of the Jedi

Article:

Imprint:

Language: Ewok

ISSN_ISBN

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Lang_Author: Cherryh, C.J.

Author:

Title: Chanur's legacy : a novel of Compact Space

Article:

Imprint: N.Y. : Daw, c1992

Language: Hani [ns], Kif, Mahendo'sat [ns], Stsho, Tic'a, Chiso

ISSN_ISBN 0886775191 hard

A/V: Book: Y Serial: Comic:

Lang_Author: Cherryh, C.J.

Author:

Title: Chanur's venture

Article:

Imprint: N.Y. : Daw, c1984

Language: Stsho [lc], Kif, Tc'a

ISSN_ISBN 0879979895

A/V: Book: Y Serial: Comic:

Lang_Author: Cherryh, C.J.

Author:

Title: Hestia

Article:

Imprint: N.Y. : Daw, c1979

Language: [Hestian]

ISSN_ISBN 0886772087

A/V: Book: Y Serial: Comic:

Lang_Author: Cherryh, C.J.

Author:

Title: Hunter of worlds

Article:

Imprint: [US : Daw, ca. 1981]

Language: *

ISSN_ISBN

A/V: Book: Y Serial: Comic:

Lang_Author: Cherryh, C.J.

Author:

Title: Kif strike back, The

Article:

Imprint: N.Y. : Daw, c1985

Language: Kif [lc], Stsho, Hani [ns], Mahendo'sat [ns]

ISSN_ISBN 0886771846

A/V: Book: Y Serial: Comic:

Lang_Author: Cherryh, C.J.

Author:

Title: Pride of Chanur

Article:

Imprint: N.Y. : Daw, c1981, 1982

Language: Hani [ns], Kif, Mahendo'sat [ns], Stsho, Tic'a

ISSN_ISBN

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Lang_Author: Delany, Samuel R.

Author:

Title: Bable-17

Article:

Imprint: N.Y. : Ace, c1966

Language: Bable-17

ISSN_ISBN

A/V: Book: Y Serial: Comic:

Lang_Author: Delvin, Dean ?

Author: Delvin, Dean; Roland Emmerich, director

Title: Stargate

Article:

Imprint:

Language: Ancient Egyptian (?)

ISSN_ISBN

A/V: Y Book: Serial: Comic:

Lang_Author: Delvin, Dean ?

Author: Delvin, Dean; Roland Emmerich

Title: Stargate

Article:

Imprint: [N.Y.] : Signet, 1994

Language: Ancient Egyptian (?)

ISSN_ISBN 0451184106

A/V: Book: Y Serial: Comic:

Lang_Author: Doohan, James

Author: Foster, Alan Dean, story; Robert Wise, director

Title: Star trek : the motion picture

Article:

Imprint: US : Paramount, c1988. -- VHS, NTSC. -- Note: James Doohan

wrote the first Klingon which became the bases of the

Klingon language created by Marc Okrand.

Language: Klingon

ISSN_ISBN 0792101707

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Lang_Author: Dos Passos, John, 1896-1970

Author:

Title: Manhattan transfer

Article:

Imprint: Boston : Hughton-Mifflin, [1990], c1925

Language: *

ISSN_ISBN

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Lang_Author: Duane, Diane

Author:

Title: Door into sunset, The

Article:

Imprint:

Language: *

ISSN_ISBN

A/V: Book: Y Serial: Comic:

Lang_Author: Duane, Diane

Author:

Title: My enemy, my ally (Star Trek series)

Article:

Imprint: Toronto : Pocket, c1984. -- (Star trek, 18)

Language: Romulan [lc]

ISSN_ISBN 0671704214

A/V: Book: Y Serial: Comic:

Lang_Author: Ford, John M.

Author:

Title: Final reflection, The

Article:

Imprint:

Language: Klinganasse (i.e. Klingon)

ISSN_ISBN

A/V: Book: Y Serial: Comic:

Lang_Author: Foster, M.A.

Author:

Title: Gameplayers of Zan, The

Article:

Imprint:

Language: *

ISSN_ISBN

A/V: Book: Y Serial: Comic:

Lang_Author: Haden Elgin, Suzette

Author:

Title: Earthsong : Native tongue III

Article:

Imprint: N.Y. : Daw, c1994

Language: Laadan

ISSN_ISBN 088677592

A/V: Book: Y Serial: Comic:

Lang_Author: Haden Elgin, Suzette

Author:

Title: First dictionary and grammar of Laadan

Article:

Imprint: 2nd ed. -- Madison, WI : Society for the Study of Fantacy

and Science Fiction, Inc., c1988. -- Audio tape available

from the publisher.

Language: Laadan

ISSN_ISBN 0961864109

A/V: Book: Y Serial: Comic:

Lang_Author: Haden Elgin, Suzette

Author:

Title: Judas Rose, the : Native tongue II

Article:

Imprint: N.Y. : Daw, c1987

Language: Laadan, Panglish [ns], "REM" languages [ns]

ISSN_ISBN 0886771862

A/V: Book: Y Serial: Comic:

Lang_Author: Haden Elgin, Suzette

Author:

Title: Native tongue : who speaks the language of the stars?

Article:

Imprint: N.Y. : Daw, c1984

Language: Laadan, Panglish [ns], "REM" languages [ns]

ISSN_ISBN 0879979453

A/V: Book: Y Serial: Comic:

Lang_Author: Haden Elgin, Suzette

Author:

Title: [Gothic tales ?]

Article: Chico Rodriguez talkes funny

Imprint:

Language: *

ISSN_ISBN

A/V: Book: Y Serial: Comic:

Lang_Author: Harrison, Harry

Author:

Title: West of Eden

Article:

Imprint: Toronto : Bantam, c1985. -- Includes notes and glossaries

on all languages.

Language: Yilanh, Marbak, Sesek, Angurpiaq

ISSN_ISBN 0553265512

A/V: Book: Y Serial: Comic:

Lang_Author: Harrison, Harry

Author:

Title: Winter in Eden

Article:

Imprint: Toronto : Grafton, c1986. -- Includes notes and glossaries

on all languages.

Language: Yilanh, Marbak, Sesek, Angurpiak

ISSN_ISBN 0586064796

A/V: Book: Y Serial: Comic:

Lang_Author: Heinlein, Robert A.

Author:

Title: Double star

Article:

Imprint: N.Y. : Ballantine, c1956 (1989 printing) -- A Del Ray Book.

Language: *

ISSN_ISBN 0345330137

A/V: Book: Y Serial: Comic:

Lang_Author: Heinlein, Robert A.

Author:

Title: Red planet, The

Article:

Imprint:

Language: Martian [ns]

ISSN_ISBN

A/V: Book: Y Serial: Comic:

Lang_Author: Herbert, Frank

Author:

Title: Dune

Article:

Imprint: N.Y. : Ace, c1965 (1990 printing)

Language: [Arrakeen] [ns]; Harkonnen

ISSN_ISBN 0441172717

A/V: Book: Y Serial: Comic:

Lang_Author: Kagan, Janet

Author:

Title: Hellspark

Article:

Imprint:

Language: *

ISSN_ISBN

A/V: Book: Y Serial: Comic:

Lang_Author: Kube-Mcdowell, Michael

Author:

Title: Enigma : book two of the Trigon Disunity.

Article:

Imprint:

Language: *

ISSN_ISBN

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Lang_Author: Lasswitz, Kurd

Author:

Title: Two planets (Auf zwei Planeten)

Article:

Imprint:

Language: Martian

ISSN_ISBN

A/V: Book: Y Serial: Comic:

Lang_Author: Le Guin, Ursula K.

Author:

Title: Left hand of darkness, The

Article:

Imprint:

Language: Gethenian [gloss]

ISSN_ISBN

A/V: Book: Y Serial: Comic:

Lang_Author: Leigh, Stephen

Author:

Title: Alien tongue

Article:

Imprint:

Language: Avian [gloss]

ISSN_ISBN

A/V: Book: Y Serial: Comic:

Lang_Author: Lewis, C.S.

Author:

Title: Out of the silent planet

Article:

Imprint:

Language: Martian [?]

ISSN_ISBN

A/V: Book: Y Serial: Comic:

Lang_Author: Longyear, Barry B.

Author:

Title: Enemy mine

Article:

Imprint: N.Y. : Tom Doherty, c1979. -- (Tor Double Novel, 6)

Language: Drac

ISSN_ISBN 0812559630

A/V: Book: Y Serial: Comic:

Lang_Author: McCaffrey, Anne

Author:

Title: Dragon riders of Pern series

Article:

Imprint:

Language: [Pernese] [ns], [Pernese (Old)] [ns]

ISSN_ISBN

A/V: Book: Y Serial: Comic:

Lang_Author: McNeill, Malcolm

Author:

Title: Gallery

Article: Tetra

Imprint:

Appeared as a series from ca. Oct. 1978-June 1979

Language: Large sample of unnamed alien language

ISSN_ISBN

A/V: Book: Serial: Y Comic: Y

Lang_Author: Moore, Alan

Author:

Title: Adam Strange Series

Article:

Imprint:

Language: Rannian

ISSN_ISBN

A/V: Book: Serial: Comic: Y

Lang_Author: Okrand, Marc

Author: Bennett, Herve story; Leonard Nimoy, dir.

Title: Star trek III : The search for Spock

Article:

Imprint: US : Paramount, c1984, 1985. -- VHS, NTSC. -- Note: First

instance of the Klingon language as developed by Marc

Okrand.

Language: Klingon [lc]

ISSN_ISBN

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Lang_Author: Okrand, Marc

Author: Berman R., story

Title: Star trek : Generations

Article:

Imprint:

Language: Klingon

ISSN_ISBN

A/V: Y Book: Serial: Comic:

Lang_Author: Okrand, Marc

Author: Nemoy, Leonard, L. Conner, M. Rosenthal, story

Title: Star trek VI : The unexplored frontier

Article:

Imprint:

Language: Klingon

ISSN_ISBN

A/V: Y Book: Serial: Comic:

Lang_Author: Okrand, Marc

Author: Shatner, William; H. Bennett; D. Laughery

Title: Star trek V : The final frontier

Article:

Imprint: US : Paramount, c1991. -- VHS, NTSC

Language: Klingon [lc]

ISSN_ISBN 0792111109

A/V: Y Book: Serial: Comic:

Lang_Author: Okrand, Marc ?

Author:

Title: Alien nation

Article:

Imprint:

Language: [Visitor language]

ISSN_ISBN

A/V: Y Book: Serial: Comic:

Lang_Author: Okrand, Marc ?

Author: Forolov, Dian; Andrew Schneider; Lloyd Ahern II, director

Title: Alien Nation : dark horizon

Article:

Imprint:

Language: [Visitor language] [lc]

ISSN_ISBN

A/V: Y Book: Serial: Comic:

Lang_Author: Okrand, Marc ?

Author: Foster, Alan Dean

Title: Star trek : the motion picture

Article:

Imprint: US : Paramount, c1988. -- VHS, NTSC

Language: Vulcan

ISSN_ISBN 0792101707

A/V: Y Book: Serial: Comic:

Lang_Author: Oliver, Chad, 1928-

Author:

Title: Unearthly neighbours

Article:

Imprint: 1st Crown ed. -- N.Y. : Crown, c1984. -- (Classics in modern

fiction)

Language: *

ISSN_ISBN

A/V: Book: Y Serial: Comic:

Lang_Author: Orwell, George

Author:

Title: 1984

Article:

Imprint:

Language: Newspeak

ISSN_ISBN

A/V: Y Book: Y Serial: Comic:

Lang_Author: Randall, Marta

Author:

Title: Dangerous games

Article:

Imprint: N.Y. : Pocket, c1980

Language: Kasirene (Modern), Kasirene (Old)

ISSN_ISBN 0671824171

A/V: Book: Y Serial: Comic:

Lang_Author: Rawn, Melanie

Author:

Title: Skybowl

Article:

Imprint: N.Y. : Daw, c1993. -- (Dragon star : book III)

Language: Faradh'im, Diarmadh'im, Merida, Vellant'im

ISSN_ISBN 0886775957

A/V: Book: Y Serial: Comic:

Lang_Author: Sapir, Richard

Author:

Title: Far arena, The

Article:

Imprint: 1st ed. -- N.Y. : Seaview Books : trade distribution by

Simon and Schuster, c1978.

Language: *

ISSN_ISBN

A/V: Book: Y Serial: Comic:

Lang_Author: Sawyer, Robert J.

Author:

Title: Foreigner

Article:

Imprint: N.Y. : Ace, c1994

Language: (Mainland) Quintaglio, (Island) Quntaglio

ISSN_ISBN 0441000177

A/V: Book: Y Serial: Comic:

Lang_Author: Sucharitkul, Somtow

Author:

Title: Darkling wind

Article:

Imprint:

Language: *

ISSN_ISBN

A/V: Book: Y Serial: Comic:

Lang_Author: Tolkien, J.J.R.

Author: Noel, Ruth

Title: Languages of Tolkien's Middle Earth

Article:

Imprint: US : Houghton-Mifflin, ca. 1980

Language: *

ISSN_ISBN 0395291305

A/V: Book: Y Serial: Comic:

Lang_Author: Vance, Jack

Author:

Title: Languages of Pao, The

Article:

Imprint:

Language: Paonese, Mercantile, Breakness, et alia.

ISSN_ISBN

A/V: Book: Y Serial: Comic:

Lang_Author: Vonarburg, Elisabeth, 1947-

Author:

Title: Chronique du pays des mhres

Article:

Imprint: Montrial : Quibec/Amiriques, 1992. -- (Collection

litirature d'Amirique)

Language: *

ISSN_ISBN 2890376028

A/V: Book: Y Serial: Comic:

Lang_Author: Vonarburg, Elisabeth, 1947-

Author:

Title: In the mother's land

Article:

Imprint: N.Y. : Bantam, 1992. -- "A Bantam Spectra Book". --

Original tilte: Chroniques du payes des mhres.

Language:

ISSN_ISBN

A/V: Book: Y Serial: Comic:

Lang_Author: Vonarburg, Elisabeth 1947-

Author:

Title: Silence de la citi, le (Silence of the city)

Article:

Imprint: Paris : Danoel, c1981

Language: Not named

ISSN_ISBN 2207303276

A/V: Book: Y Serial: Comic:

Lang_Author: Watson, Ian

Author:

Title: Embedding, The

Article:

Imprint:

Language: *

ISSN_ISBN

A/V: Book: Y Serial: Comic:

Lang_Author: Weinbaum, Stanley G.

Author:

Title: Martian Odyssey, A

Article:

Imprint:

Language: *

ISSN_ISBN

A/V: Book: Y Serial: Comic:


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