A brilliant cult classic of literary science fiction--back in print.
This book is a unique storehouse of surprising, thought provoking, fascinating and useful facts about human speech and the written word.
Set in Los Angeles, A Native's Tongue follows the life of Charlie Winters.
In 1787 at the Constitutional Convention, Madison said the following (by “freeholders” he meanslandowners): “Viewing the subjectin its merits alone, the freeholders of the country would be the safest depositories of republican liberty.
In the stunning conclusion to the series, Earthsong imagines a completely new way of being. The interstellar Consortium of Planets has forsaken the irredeemably violent Earth, condemning the planet to economic and ecological chaos.
Computer genius GiGi is paired with Parrot, an expert linguist, on a secret mission to South America, trying to keep a legendary piece of pottery from falling into the wrong hands.
Recounts a history of the English language from its Indo-European origins to the present.
The final volume in the trilogy feminist science-fiction fans have been waiting for.
“In this bold new book, Tovar eviscerates diet culture, proclaims the joyous possibilities of fatness, and shows us that liberation is possible.” —Sarai Walker, author of Dietland Growing up as a fat girl, Virgie Tovar believed that ...
With the passage of the twenty-fifth amendment, which denies women equal rights, a cold war between the sexes ensues for several hundred years in a world that relies on interplanetary...
But when outraged priests detect their sabotage, they send a double agent to infiltrate and destroy the movement from the inside… Originally published in the 1980s, the Native Tongue trilogy is a classic dystopian tale: a testament to the ...