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"
- Candas Jane Dorsey. Black Wine.
- Suzette Haden Elgin's Native Tongue and Judas Rose introduce Láadan, a women's language. She also puts out a newsletter on linguistics and sf.
- Sheila Finch, the Lingster stories
- Janet Kagan, Hellspark
- 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)