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Revision as of 02:18, 28 February 2026
On Riddley Walker and Russell Hoban
- 1975 - Russell Hoban (1992)
- An essay by Hoban on how he began the book. DA
- The Terror of History - David Cowart (1989)
- An essay on the treatment of history and myth in RW.
- Dialect, Grapholect, and Story: Russell Hoban's Riddley Walker as Science Fiction
- A scholarly essay by R.D. Mullen, posthumously published in Science Fiction Studies #82 in 2000. This is nominally an argument about whether the novel is a good example of the science fiction genre, and whether Hoban's world-building decisions make sense—but Mullen also discusses the linguistic aspect very thoroughly, breaking down elements of spelling, syntax, etc. in detail. The page also includes responses from other Science Fiction Studies authors with some quibbles about Mullen's analysis. (access to article is limited, may require university account)
- The Language of Riddley Walker (part 1, part 2)
- A pair of blog posts by "AE" analyzing Hoban's choices of spelling, vocabulary, and punctuation in RW. Part 1 is largely an aesthetic argument for why AE dislikes Hoban's choices and wishes the whole book had been written differently, but part 2 eventually takes a more objective approach and breaks down the differences from "Standard English" in linguistic terms ("back vowels", "reduction of posttonic o", etc.).
- Riddley Walker Concordance
- A very detailed database for finding words and phrases in several editions of the book.
- The Head of Orpheus and RussellHoban.org
- Comprehensive Hoban reference sites.
Other
- Where London Stood
- A survey of fictional depictions of the ruin of civilization, 18th century to present, by archaeologist David Platt.