I would like discovery fiction on the invention of written language, please!
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Samuel Delany. Trust me, this is a rabbit hole you want to go down. Start with Tales of Neveryon. Starboard Wine is difficult to find and will transform your understanding of SF and reading itself.
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This would be so interesting! There were some references to language in general, in Sapiens. But I would love to see fiction in this space 😁
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It isn’t fiction but “The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood” covered this quite extensively.
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Ah, thank you! I have that book somewhere but have not yet read it. Will dig it up.
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This might be unrelated, but here's a short story built around the idea of extensions of the brain (one of them is written language) and how they influence our lives. It's called The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling by Ted Chiang.
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I love that story.
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