Linguistics in SF

Works particularly relating to language or linguistics.

• Louky Bersianik. L'Eugelionne, translated as The Eugelion - among other things, an amazing satire, and a critique of the sexism of the French language.
• Octavia Butler. "Speech Sounds"
• Raphael Carter, "The Congenital Agenesis of Gender Ideation" (styled as an academic paper that uses linguistic studies, but the paper itself is not particularly about linguistics)
• Ted Chiang, "Story of Your Life"
• Samuel R. Delany, Babel-17
• Candas Jane Dorsey. Black Wine.
• Suzette Haden Elgin's Native Tongue and Judas Rose introduce Láadan, a women's language, and a test of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. She also puts out a newsletter on linguistics and sf.
• Sheila Finch, the Lingster stories
• Janet Kagan, Hellspark
• Janet Kagan, Uhura's Song
• Rosemary Kirstein. The Language of Power
• Naomi Mitchison. Memoirs of a Spacewoman (1962) (A travelling space explorer is a communicator with all sorts of other species.)
• Joanna Russ, "Useful Phrases for the Tourist"
• Amy Thomson. The Color of Distance
• Lisa Tuttle, "The Cure" (language acquisition)
• Connie Willis, "Blue Moon"
• Connie Willis, "Spice Program"
• Monique Wittig. Les Guerilleres (1971; originally published in French, 1969)
• Monique Wittig and Sande Zeig. Lesbian Peoples: Material for a Dictionary (1979); originally published as Brouillon pour un Dictionnaire des Amantes (1976)

Further reading

• Tycho Garen, Don’t Get it Right, Get it Read, Tycoish (personal blog), 2008/3/30