Vyvyan Evans
"Smart speculative fiction at its very best"
"Smart speculative fiction at its very vest"
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Vyvyan Evans
Aug 154 min read
The (Emoji) Generation Gap
If you are a Generation Xer, someone in their fifties, then the chances are that you may have recently deployed the praying hands emoji ...
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Vyvyan Evans
Jul 163 min read
An Ideology of Hate in the Publishing Industry?
The case of Waterstones and the anti-trans author Christina Dalcher According to a recent post on an influential Mumsnet forum, the...
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Vyvyan Evans
Jun 222 min read
It's a Brat Summer
The use of 'brat' by pop star Charli XCX and why it works Photograph: @CHARLI_XCX/INSTAGRAM The word ‘brat’ is typically used to mean an...
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Vyvyan Evans
May 313 min read
The World of the Songs of the Sage
The Songs of the Sage series consists of six books that are equal parts apocalyptic sci-fi, arcane mystery and mainstream thriller.
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Vyvyan Evans
May 272 min read
Explorations of linguistic relativity in science fiction
Linguistic Relativity holds that divergence in the grammatical organization and lexical structure of the language we speak alters the...
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Vyvyan Evans
May 212 min read
The Essential Ingredients for Writing Science Fiction
Science fiction is the literary genre of ideas. And it helps to have subject matter expertise to be able to effectively write in this...
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Vyvyan Evans
May 172 min read
Skip the Cineplex and Read a Summer Blockbuster
Kirkus Reviews recommends The Babel Apocalypse as summer blockbuster poolside reading -- a thriller with a formidable female antihero.
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Vyvyan Evans
May 132 min read
How to Write Believable Characters in Fiction
While a fictional character emerges from an act of imagination, fiction is grounded in lived experience. And in turn, the best fiction...
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Vyvyan Evans
May 810 min read
Time to Reflect on Time
Almost everyone I’ve ever met is, in one way or another, fascinated by time. We intuitively understand it. We feel its passage—in the...
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Vyvyan Evans
May 72 min read
"A truly extraordinary SF saga of epic scope."
"A truly extraordinary SF saga of epic scope."
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Vyvyan Evans
Mar 283 min read
What was the world's first language?
The idea that all the spoken languages of the world directly originated from a single language is known as monogenesis.
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Vyvyan Evans
Mar 131 min read
What is the Nature, Purpose and Origin of Language?
The Dark Court, book 2 in the speculative fiction Songs of the Sage series continues the exploration of the origin of language.
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Vyvyan Evans
Mar 112 min read
What's the Warning Behind The Babel Apocalypse?
The Babel Apocalypse is the first in a new series of science fiction novels: Songs of the Sage.
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Vyvyan Evans
Feb 132 min read
They who control language control everything
A science fiction book series set in the near future where language is no longer learned but streamed.
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Vyvyan Evans
Feb 53 min read
The Fourth Industrial Revolution, Language Streaming Technology and the Transhuman
Today in the twentieth-first century, we are on the brink of a Fourth Industrial Revolution, sometimes dubbed 4IR. This is where...
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Vyvyan Evans
Jan 313 min read
The Future of Language: Neural Implants
Elon Musk claimed in a 2020 interview, that neural implants will make language learning obsolete...
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Vyvyan Evans
Dec 21, 20231 min read
"Smart speculative fiction at its very best"
"Smart speculative fiction at its very best."
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Vyvyan Evans
Aug 5, 20235 min read
Why Biological Sex Is Not the Same as Gender
Exposing myths and prejudice in the so-called Gender Wars
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Vyvyan Evans
Jul 10, 202310 min read
Hollywood Audiobook Scam
My 'open letter' to the Hollywood producer, Adam Cushman of Film 14 LLC who has scammed me, and is refusing to return my audiobook money
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