Nadsat plays a fictional character is in both Anthony Burgess's novel and the movie adaption directed by Stanley Kubrick?
Nadsat Nadsat is a fictional register or argot used by the teenagers in Anthony Burgess's novel "A Clockwork Orange". In addition to being a novelist, Burgess was a linguist and he used this background to depict his characters as speaking a form of Russian-influenced English. The name itself comes from the Russian suffix equivalent of "-teen" as in "thirteen" (-надцать, "-nad·tsat&apos;"). Nadsat was also used in Stanley Kubrick's film adaptation of the book.
Direct Descent Direct Descent (1980) is a short science fiction novel by Frank Herbert. It was based on the short story "Pack Rat Planet" published in 1954 in "Astounding Science-Fiction".