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Suzette Haden Elgin

Born

in Missouri, The United States

November 18, 1936

Died

January 27, 2015

Website

http://www.sfwa.org/members/elgin/

Genre

Fantasy, Science Fiction

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Suzette Haden Elgin was 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 was also a linguist; she published 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. S ...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. Mitchell puts Read more of this blog post »

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Suzette Haden Elgin’s books

Average rating: 3.87 · 8,258 ratings · 984 reviews · 78 distinct works • Similar authors

	Native Tongue (Native Tongue, #1) 4.01 avg rating — 3,752 ratings — published 1984 — 35 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Judas Rose (Native Tongue #2) by Suzette Haden Elgin, Susan Merrill Squier (Afterword), Julie Vedder (Afterword) 3.89 avg rating — 737 ratings — published 1987 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense 3.79 avg rating — 654 ratings — published 1980 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Earthsong (Native Tongue, #3) by Suzette Haden Elgin, Julie Vedder (Foreword) 3.38 avg rating — 482 ratings — published 1994 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How to Disagree Without Being Disagreeable 3.87 avg rating — 178 ratings — published 1997 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Twelve Fair Kingdoms 3.96 avg rating — 168 ratings — published 1981 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense at Work 3.78 avg rating — 134 ratings — published 1999 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Grand Jubilee 4.12 avg rating — 122 ratings — published 1981 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Ozark Trilogy (Ozark Trilogy, #1-3) 4.07 avg rating — 116 ratings — published 1981 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	And Then There'll Be Fireworks (Ozark Trilogy, #3) 4.05 avg rating — 115 ratings — published 1981 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Suzette Haden Elgin

Native Tongue (3 books)
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Julie Vedder (Foreword)

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Coyote Jones Series (5 books)
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Quotes by Suzette Haden Elgin (?)

“First principle: there's no such thing as reality. We make it up by perceiving stimuli from the environment - external or internal - and making statements about it. Everybody perceives stuff, everybody makes up statements about it, everybody - so far as we can tell - agrees enough to get by, so that when I say 'Hand me the coffee' you know what to hand me. And that's reality. Second principle; people get used to a certain kind of reality and come to expect it, and if what they perceive doesn't fit the set of statements everybody's agreed to, either the culture has to go through a kind of fit until it adjusts...or they just blank it out.”
― Suzette Haden Elgin, Native Tongue

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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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“We are men, and human words are all we have: even the Word of God is composed actually of the words of men.” (HUNTING THE DIVINE FOX, by Robert Farrar Capon,”
― Suzette Haden Elgin, Native Tongue

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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

18 votes, 24.7%

Native Tongue by Suzette Haden Elgin

13 votes, 17.8%

Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank

13 votes, 17.8%

Natural History by Justina Robson

9 votes, 12.3%

Soft Apocalypse by Will McIntosh

9 votes, 12.3%

City of Golden Shadow by Tad Williams

7 votes, 9.6%

All the Lives He Led by Frederik Pohl

4 votes, 5.5%

73 total votes

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