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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.
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.

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Where London Stood
study of fictional depictions of the ruin of civilization, 18th century to present