Vyv Evans, PhD

The Crucible of Language, a popular science book by Vyvyan Evans unravels how language and mind co-conspire to produce meaning.

"Smart speculative fiction at its very vest"

If you are a Generation Xer, someone in their fifties, then the chances are that you may have recently deployed the praying hands emoji ...

The case of Waterstones and the anti-trans author Christina Dalcher According to a recent post on an influential Mumsnet forum, the...

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...

The Songs of the Sage series consists of six books that are equal parts apocalyptic sci-fi, arcane mystery and mainstream thriller.

Linguistic Relativity holds that divergence in the grammatical organization and lexical structure of the language we speak alters the...

Science fiction is the literary genre of ideas. And it helps to have subject matter expertise to be able to effectively write in this...

Kirkus Reviews recommends The Babel Apocalypse as summer blockbuster poolside reading -- a thriller with a formidable female antihero.

While a fictional character emerges from an act of imagination, fiction is grounded in lived experience. And in turn, the best fiction...

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...

"A truly extraordinary SF saga of epic scope."

The idea that all the spoken languages of the world directly originated from a single language is known as monogenesis.

The Dark Court, book 2 in the speculative fiction Songs of the Sage series continues the exploration of the origin of language.

The Babel Apocalypse is the first in a new series of science fiction novels: Songs of the Sage.

A science fiction book series set in the near future where language is no longer learned but streamed.

Today in the twentieth-first century, we are on the brink of a Fourth Industrial Revolution, sometimes dubbed 4IR. This is where...

Elon Musk claimed in a 2020 interview, that neural implants will make language learning obsolete...

"Smart speculative fiction at its very best."

Exposing myths and prejudice in the so-called Gender Wars