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Fiction, Women linguists, American Science fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general
Laadan --battle cry of revolution or a tool to unite human and alien? IN LANGUAGE LIES POWER! And on a future Earth where genetically bred linguists hold the key to the planet's economic survival because only they can serve as translators between human and alien traders, language has, indeed, become the way to power. but what this future earth's male-dominated society does not yet realize is that ordinary women as well as linguists can wield this weapon of the mind.
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Epic, unpretentious, plot-driven and grave.
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On Open Library, 2 have read it and 4 want to.
Suzette Haden Elgin (born Patricia Anne Wilkins) 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. - Wikipedia
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