Suzette Haden Elgin





Suzette Haden Elgin

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January 01, 1936 in Missouri, The United States

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Suzette Haden Elgin is an American science fiction author. She founded the Science Fiction Poetry Association, and is considered an important figure in the field of science fiction constructed languages. Elgin is also a linguist; she publishes non-fiction, of which the best-known is the Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense series.

Born in 1936 in Missouri, Elgin attended the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) in the 1960s, and began writing science fiction in order to pay tuition. She has a Ph.D. in linguistics, and was the first UCSD student to ever write two dissertations (on English and Navajo). She created the engineered language Láadan for her Native Tongue science fiction series. A grammar and dictionary was published in 1985. She...more


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I just want to mention something here, in case you're not already aware of it. I want to mention the extraordinary craftsmanship that's demonstrated by Margaret Mitchell in Gone With The Wind</>. The density of it, and the way everything in it is woven together; the immediacy of it. It's truly remarkable, and I wish I could write that way. It's exactly what I want for Alien Tongues. Mitch... read more »
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Average rating: 3.84 · 1,599 ratings · 167 reviews · 55 distinct works
Native Tongue
4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 493 ratings — published 1984 — 7 editions
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The Gentle Art of Verbal Se...
3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 168 ratings — published 1980 — 7 editions
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The Judas Rose: Native Tong...
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3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 139 ratings — published 1987 — 3 editions
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Earthsong (Native Tongue, #3)
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3.35 of 5 stars 3.35 avg rating — 103 ratings — published 1994 — 2 editions
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Twelve Fair Kingdoms
3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 62 ratings — published 1981 — 2 editions
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The Grand Jubilee
3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 1981 — 2 editions
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And Then There'll Be Fireworks
3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 1981 — 2 editions
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The Ozark Trilogy (#1-3)
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 1981 — 2 editions
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The Gentle Art of Verbal Se...
3.61 of 5 stars 3.61 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 1999
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How to Disagree Without Bei...
3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 1997 — 5 editions
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More books by Suzette Haden Elgin…
Native Tongue The Judas Rose: Native Tong... Earthsong
Native Tongue (3 books)
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3.938775510204082 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 735 ratings
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Ozark Trilogy (4 books)
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3.8578199052132702 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 211 ratings
At the Seventh Level Furthest Yonder Comes The Other End ... Star Anchored, Star Angered
Communipath Worlds (5 books)
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3.393939393939394 of 5 stars 3.39 avg rating — 66 ratings

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“The two men sat there together, in the kind of silence that's not empty because it has the thoughts of two longtime friends to fill it.”
Suzette Haden Elgin, Earthsong

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