S3E5: Modern Sci-Fi Television – A Reader's History of Science Fiction
In this episode, I review the recent history and current status of science fiction on television during the streaming era. TV recommendation: The Orville
Science fiction frequently plays with language in different ways to explore the concepts of philosophy, culture, and cognition; and constructed languages (or conlangs) are a big part of that. In this episode, I highlight how conlangs have contributed to the genre over its history.
TV recommendation: Defiance (Kastithanu, L’Irathi, Indojisnen, and Kinuk’aaz, by David J. Peterson)
My blog posts about language in Creationism.
jan Misali’s Conlang Critic playlist.
Other languages discussed:
Newspeak (Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell)
Láadan (Native Tongue, by Suzette Elgin)
Klingon (Star Trek, by Marc Okrand)
Na’vi (Avatar, by Paul Frommer)
Science Meets Fiction 