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linguists who wrote science fiction
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Jean D'Costa
Jean D'Costa (born 1937)

linguist, poet

  • University of the West Indies, University College London

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Edwin Abbott Abbott
Edwin Abbott Abbott (1838-1926)

theologian, school teacher, cleric, philologist

  • University of Cambridge

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Flatland
A Shakespearian grammar
Johannine Vocabulary
Johannine Grammar
Philochristus
Philomythus
Francis Bacon
St. Thomas of Canterbury
Onesimus
How to parse
Apologia
The kernel and the husk
Latin prose through English idiom
How to write clearly
Silanus the Christian
Hints on Home Teaching
Bible lessons
The Anglican career of Cardinal Newman
Diatessarica
The fourfold Gospel
Indices to diatessarica
Clue
Through nature to Christ
Bacon And Essex
The spirit on the waters
Cambridge sermons preached before the University
Contrast, or, A prophet and a forger
Hints on home training and teaching
Light on the gospel from an ancient poet
The corrections of Mark adopted by Matthew and Luke
Flatland/Sphereland
The good voices, a child's guide to the Bible
Via Latina
The message of the Son of man
Miscellanea Evangelica
Paradosis Or In The Night In Which He Was Betrayed
Newmanianism: A Preface to the Second Edition of Philomythus ; Containing a ..
From letter to spirit
English lessons for English people
The early life of Cardinal Newman
How to tell the parts of speech
Düzdünya
Bacon's Essays V1
The Authorship of the Fourth Gospel
Promus of Formularies and Elegancies (being Private Notes, Circ. 1594, Hitherto Unpublished)
Speculative Science Fiction Classics (16 Books)
"The Son of man"; or Contributions to the study of the thoughts of Jesus
The common tradition of the synoptic gospels
Fourfold Gospel
Fourfold Gospel; Section II
Miscellanea evangelica (II)
Platlando
Oxford sermons
St. Thomas of Canterbury
Johannine grammar
'Righteousness' in the Gospels
A Concordance to the Works of Alexander Pope
The Fourfold Gospel; Section II
Fourfold Gospel; Section I
The Fourfold Gospel; Section V
Bacon's Essays; Volume 1
Flächenland
Düzlemler Ülkesi
Fourfold Gospel; Section III
Notes on New Testament criticism
Fourfold Gospel; Section IV
Philomythus, an antidote against credulity
The Son of Man, or, Contributions to the study of the thoughts of Jesus
Diatessarica
Justin's Use of the Fourth Gospel
The common tradition of the synoptic Gospels
Parables for children
Hand-book of English grammar ...
Via latina
How to write clearly
English lessons for English people
The fourfold Gospel
Illusion in religion
Miscellanea evangelica
Andreas Brandhorst
Andreas Brandhorst (born 1956)

linguist, translator, podcaster

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Naomi Mitchison
Naomi Mitchison (1897-1999)

nurse, poet, linguist

  • Dragon School

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Caught in the Organ Draft
Memoirs of a Spacewoman
Memoirs of a spacewoman
Science Fiction Story Reader 10
Memoirs of a spacewoman
Memoirs of a spacewoman
The Corn king and the spring queen
The moral basis of politics
The Corn King and the Spring Queen
Travel light
The blood of the martyrs
Solution three
The bull calves
You may well ask
When the bough breaks, and other stories
The blood of the martyrs
Among you taking notes--
Memoirs of a Spacewoman
Sun and moon
Alexander the Great
The family at Ditlabeng
The blood of the martyrs
The Africans
Cloud cuckoo land
Images of Africa
Snake!
African heroes
The Fourth Pig
The Fourth Pig (Oddly Modern Fairy Tales)
When the Bough Breaks and Other Stories
Naomi Mitchison
Sunrise tomorrow
Socrates
The Conquered
Mucking around
Black Sparta
Margaret Cole, 1893-1980
Early in Orcadia
When the Bough Breaks, and Other Stories
Lobsters on the agenda
The blood of the martyrs
To the Chapel Perilous
FIVE MEN AND A SWAN
African Heroes
A life for Africa
The home and a changing civilisation
Small talk-
To the Chapel Perilous
Memoirs of a Spacewoman
The Vegetable War
The Conquered
The Young Alfred the Great
Friends and enemies
Solution three
Kornkönig und Frühlingsbraut
The Big House
Cleopatra's people
You May Well Ask
Five Men and a Swan
Sea-green Ribbons
Anna Comnena
Return to the fairy hill
As It Was
Small talk--: memories of an Edwardian childhood
Memoiren einer Raumfahrerin
Alexander the Great
Phoenix: Among You Taking Notes..
A girl must live
What Do You Think Yourself
Black Sparta
Oil for the highlands?
The far harbour
Cleansing of the Knife and Other Poems
All change here
Naomi Mitchison's Vienna diary
Comments on birth control
Other People's Worlds, and Mucking Around
Judy and Lakshmi
Blood of the Martyrs
Vienna diary
The laburnum branch, poems
Oil for the Highlands?
Vienna diary 1934
The Land the Ravens Found
Barbarian Stories, with the Hostages, and Boys and Girls and Gods
Blood of the Martyrs
Cloud cuckoo land
BLACK SPARTA (TRAVELLERS LIBRARY)
The Danish teapot
Graeme and the Dragon and Other Stories for Young Readers
Early in Orcadia
The Land the Ravens Found
Cleopatra's People
The land the ravens found
What the human race is up to
Life for Africa
Ketse and the chief
The Conquered
Behold Your King
The family at Ditlabeng
Spindrift
The Kingdom of Heaven
Judy and Lakshmi
Oath-Takers and Sea-Green Ribbons
Sittlichkeit
The Family at Ditlabeng
The Alban goes out
Rib of the Green Umbrella and Karensgaard
Naomi Mitchison (Saltire Pamphlets: Self-portrait Series)
THE PRICE OF FREEDOM. A PLAY IN THREE ACTS.
When the bough breaks and other stories
The swan's road
Blood of the Martyrs
Fairy Who Couldn't Tell a Lie
Solution Three
The Swan's Road
Five men and a swan
Black Sparta
Return to the fairy hill
The hostages
Judy and Lakshmi
Far Harbour with Henny and Crispies
Friends and enemies
Bull Calves
Not by Bread Alone
Re-educating Scotland
Conquered
The Oath-takers
Small Talk
Friends and Enemies
Travel Light
Blood of the Martyrs
When the Bough Breaks with Black Sparta
The Barbarian
Beyond this limit
The conquered
Bridges of Understanding
The big surprise
Sittlichkeit
African heroes
Presenting other people's children
Boys and girls and gods
Anna Comnena
The Young Alfred the Great
Presenting other people's children
When we become men
The conquered
When we become men
The Best war stories
Among You Taking Notes
Travel Light
Other people's worlds
Naomi Mitchison's Vienna Diary
The Conquered
What the Human Race is Up to
Barbarian stories
Sun and moon
Lobsters on the agenda
To the Chapel Perilous
The land the ravens found
To the Chapel Perilous
Not by bread alone
What Do You Think Yourself? with a Girl Must Live
Nix-nought-nothing
Among You Taking Notes...
Alexander the Great (Then & There)
Black Sparta
Behold your king
The big house
Graeme and the dragon
A fishing village on the Clyde
Small talk
Five men and a swan
Men and Herring
The corn king and the spring queen / by Naomi Mitchison ; with four pictures by Z. Stryjenska being decorations of the Polish National Pavilion in the Paris Exhibition of 1926
The far harbour
Six women of the world
The conquered
Comments on birth control
The hostages,and other stories for boys and girls
The Alban goes out
As it was in the beginning
The rib of the green umbrella
Images of Africa
Saunes Bairos
The bull calves
Nix-nought-nothing ; and Elfen Hill
The delicate fire
Memoirs of a spacewoman
The laburnum branch
Blood of the martyrs
Six women of the world
The powers of light
The Fourth Pig
The price of freedom
We have been warned
What the human race is up to
The Alban goes out
The fairy who couldn't tell a lie
The family of Ditlabeng
The Brave nurse and other stories
The delicate fire
Corn King & Spring Queen
The big house
An end and a beginning; and other plays
When we become men
The laburnum branch
Spindrift
Ketse and the chief
When the bough breaks
The barbarian
Man and herring
Don't look back
As it was in the beginning
László L. LÅ‘rincz
László L. Lőrincz (born 1939)

linguist, translator, orientalist

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Alain Dorémieux
Alain Dorémieux (1933-1998)

linguist, translator

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Sylvain Neuvel
Sylvain Neuvel (born 1973)

translator, linguist

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Sleeping Giants
Only Human
Waking Gods: Themis Files Book 2
Sleeping Giants
Waking Gods
Waking Gods
History of What Comes Next Sneak Peek
History of What Comes Next
Giants
Dark Discoveries - Issue #38
L'Eveil des Dieux (Les Dossiers Thémis, Tome 2) (French Edition)
For the First Time, Again
Le Sommeil des géants
The Test
Until the Last of Me
Le Sommeil des géants (Les Dossiers Thémis, Tome 1) (Les Dossiers Thémis (1)) (French Edition)
Until the Last of Me
History of What Comes Next
For the First Time, Again
Only Human
Explorations in seamless morphology
The Test
Know Book 2
Femmes, je vous aime --
Christina Dalcher
Christina Dalcher

linguist

  • Georgetown University

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