Shadows of the Apt

…is what I shall be at on the 1^st of May.
Check out the websie here. I'm down for:
1.00pm — coffee klatch — come and meet the author (1)
2.15pm — panel: the 30 second commute — how the electronic age will make everything and everyone obsolete.
Please do come over and see me, or indeed such luminaries as China Mieville […]

Language tends to get one of two treatments in fantasy — either it's never looked at, everyone speaks English and it's all fine, or Tolkien. Mr T being a professor of Anglo-Saxon, I think, he went to town on the languages in a big way. Indeed I believe I read that the languages came first, the history second, the actual fiction […]