The realms of science fiction are fraught with war, whether from the battleships of galaxy-spanning space operas or the delete button of a gritty cyber-future. But in the genre’s non-fictional history, there’s one conflict that has churned out battle-scarred veterans for decades, and it has been waged in the unassuming field of linguistics. Simply put, people can’t […]
Once you’re deep into genre fandom, if you’re not careful, you can wind up spending more time reading about the thing you love than actually reading the thing you love—there are certainly non-fiction books about Sherlock Holmes in print than there are Sherlock Holmes stories themselves, and no end to the number of scholarly considerations of the […]