Best Books on Writing by Sci-Fi and Fantasy Authors

When George R.R. Martin’s epic series A Song of Ice and Fire made the jump to TV screens as Game of Thrones, his fictional languages had to be expanded to accommodate lines the show added. 

Enter David J. Peterson, who developed Dothraki into a real language that the series’ screenwriters could use extensively. If you want to top George R.R. Martin’s efforts and give your sci-fi or fantasy story a real, functional language, then this is the book for you: it’s the best book on writing in languages that don’t exist yet. Read it carefully, and Peterson won’t have to fix your language for you when you sell your novel’s TV rights to HBO.