{"id":121,"date":"2020-11-21T15:51:48","date_gmt":"2020-11-21T15:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimclarke.net\/?p=121"},"modified":"2020-11-24T01:46:27","modified_gmt":"2020-11-24T01:46:27","slug":"riddley-max-iain-and-dave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/2020\/11\/21\/riddley-max-iain-and-dave\/","title":{"rendered":"Riddley, Max, Iain and Dave"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

My fourth (of three originally intended!) article on Riddley Walker <\/em>and invented literary languages is now live on the Ponying the Slovos project site<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This one looks at the various legacies and tributes to the post-apocalyptic debased English invented by Russell Hoban for Riddley Walker. <\/em>Unsurprisingly, they’re largely post-apocalypse narratives themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We have the third Mad Max <\/em>movie, an Iain M. Banks NON-Culture SF novel, and a novel by Will Self, The Book of Dave, <\/em>wherein the rantings of a psychotic London cabbie form the basis of a post-apocalyptic future religion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s a fun mixed bag, linked by language, and it was fun to write about them all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My fourth (of three originally intended!) article on Riddley Walker and invented literary languages is now live on the Ponying the Slovos project site. This one looks at the various legacies and tributes to the post-apocalyptic debased English invented by Russell Hoban for Riddley Walker. Unsurprisingly, they’re largely post-apocalypse narratives themselves. We have the third … <\/p>\n

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