Suzette Haden Elgin

Suzette Haden Elgin (born Patricia Anne Suzette Haden Wilkins) is a linguist, SF writer, and artist.

Creator of the Coyote Jones series, the Ozark Trilogy, and the Native Tongue Trilogy, and various short stories. She has written several popular works on communication, focusing on how to avoid or defuse verbal conflict and attacks.

Creator of the constructed language Láadan, a women's language; first discussed in the Native Tongue Trilogy.

Influences, Impacts, Intertextualism, Connections

• "The Two of Them" by Joanna Russ, which took the characters and settings from Elgin's short story "For the Sake of Grace".

Bibliography

• See annotated bibliography at SHE's website.

Coyote Jones (Communipath Worlds)

• The Communipaths (1970)
• Furthest (1971)
• At the Seventh Level (1972)
• Star-Anchored, Star-Angered (1979)
• Yonder Comes the Other End of Time (1986)

• The Coyote Jones novels are currently out of print. Suzette Haden Elgin explained the problem with the reprint contract at Wildside Press at her website (http://www.sfwa.org/members/elgin/CoyoteJones.html ).

The Ozark Fantasy Trilogy

• Twelve Fair Kingdoms (1981)
• The Grand Jubilee (1981)
• And Then There'll Be Fireworks (1981)
• Yonder Comes the Other End of Time (1986)
• See SHE's Ozark Trilogy page for more information, including a paper doll and two filksongs.

The Native Tongue Trilogy

• Native Tongue (1984)
• Native Tongue II: The Judas Rose (1987)
• Native Tongue III: Earthsong' (1993)

Short stories:

• Chico Lafleur Talks Funny, (ss) A Treasury of American Horror Stories, ed. Frank D. McSherry, Jr., Charles G. Waugh & Martin H. Greenberg, Bonanza/Crown Books 1985
• For the Sake of Grace, (nv) F&SF May 1969
  • Isaac Asimov’s Wonderful Worlds of Science Fiction # 2: The Science Fictional Olympics, ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg & Charles G. Waugh, Signet 1984
  • The Norton Book of Science Fiction, ed. Ursula K. Le Guin & Brian Attebery, Norton 1993
• Hush My Mouth, (ss) Alternate Histories, ed. Charles G. Waugh & Martin H. Greenberg, Garland 1986
• Lest Levitation Come Upon Us, (nv) Perpetual Light, ed. Alan Ryan, Warner Books 1982
  • Masterpieces of Fantasy and Wonder, ed. David G. Hartwell, SFBC 1989
• Lo, How an Oak E’er Blooming, (ss) F&SF Feb 1986
  • The 1987 Annual World’s Best SF, ed. Donald A. Wollheim & Arthur W. Saha, DAW 1987
• Magic Granny Says Don’t Meddle, (ss) F&SF Aug 1984
• Modulation in All Things, (ss) 1980
  • Great Science Fiction By the World’s Great Scientists, ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg & Charles G. Waugh, Donald I. Fine 1985
• Only a Housewife, (ss) F&SF Sep 1995
• School Days, (ss) Light Years and Dark, ed. Michael Bishop, Berkley 1984
• Soulfedge Rock, (ss) Space Opera, ed. Anne McCaffrey & Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, DAW 1996
• Tornado, (ss) F&SF Mar 1989
• What the EPA Don’t Know Won’t Hurt Them, (ss) F&SF Mar 1990

Poetry

• Binary Addendum, (pm) Star*Line Sep/Dec 1989
• Lexical Gap, (pm) IASFM Oct 1985
• McLuhan Transposed, (pm) 1968
  • Burning with a Vision, ed. Robert Frazier, Owlswick 1984
• Presuppositional Ghostbusting, (pm) IASFM Dec 1985
• Rocky Road to Hoe, (pm) Star*Line Sep 1987
  • Rhysling Anthology 1988, ed. Anon., Science Fiction Poetry Association 1989
  • Nebula Awards 24, ed. Michael Bishop, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1990

Nonfiction

Numerous nonfictional works on linguistics and communication skills. Of particular interest:

• A First Dictionary and Grammar of Láadan (1st ed.; 2d ed. 1988)
• Genderspeak (1993)

External Links

• Ozarque (Suzette Haden Elgin's LiveJournal)
• Suzette Haden Elgin's Website