Suzette Haden Elgin

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January 01, 1936 in Missouri, The United States

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Science Fiction & Fantasy

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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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Wednesday; "Gone With The Wind"...

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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Books by Suzette Haden Elgin

Average rating: 3.84 · 1,599 ratings · 167 reviews · 55 distinct works

	Native Tongue 4.09 avg rating — 493 ratings — published 1984 — 7 editions	My rating:
	The Gentle Art of Verbal Self Defense 3.71 avg rating — 168 ratings — published 1980 — 7 editions	My rating:
	The Judas Rose: Native Tongue II by Suzette Haden Elgin, Susan Merrill Squier (Afterword), Julie Vedder (Afterword) 3.85 avg rating — 139 ratings — published 1987 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Earthsong (Native Tongue, #3) by Suzette Haden Elgin, Julie Vedder (Foreword) 3.35 avg rating — 103 ratings — published 1994 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Twelve Fair Kingdoms 3.85 avg rating — 62 ratings — published 1981 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Grand Jubilee 3.92 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 1981 — 2 editions	My rating:
	And Then There'll Be Fireworks 3.80 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 1981 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Ozark Trilogy (#1-3) 4.00 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 1981 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Gentle Art of Verbal Self Defense at Work 3.61 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 1999	My rating:
	How to Disagree Without Being Disagreeable 3.82 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 1997 — 5 editions	My rating:

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Series by Suzette Haden Elgin

Native Tongue (3 books)
by Suzette Haden Elgin, Julie Vedder (Foreword)

3.94 avg rating — 735 ratings

Ozark Trilogy (4 books)
by Suzette Haden Elgin

3.86 avg rating — 211 ratings

Communipath Worlds (5 books)
by Suzette Haden Elgin

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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Polls

SEPTEMBER SCIENCE FICTION: This poll decides which two books move on to the run-off poll for September SF Book of the Month

Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge

20 votes, 25.0%

Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank

14 votes, 17.5%

Native Tongue by Suzette Haden Elgin

13 votes, 16.3%

Natural History by Justina Robson

10 votes, 12.5%

Soft Apocalypse by Will McIntosh

9 votes, 11.3%

City of Golden Shadow by Tad Williams

8 votes, 10.0%

All the Lives He Led by Frederik Pohl

6 votes, 7.5%

80 total votes

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