The Judas Rose
Subtitle: Native Tongue II
By: Suzette Haden Elgin
Series: Native Tongue (2)
Publisher: DAW Books
Published: February 3, 1987
Place of publication: New York, NY USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 1
ISBN-13: 9780886771867
Copyright date: 1987
Subjects: Fantasy; Science Fiction; Science Fiction - General; Fiction - Science Fiction; Fiction / General
Notes: Also issued online.
Table of contents: title: 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.; title: The women have at last decided to spread the language using the Roman Catholic church. But when a handful of priests discover the plot, they move to stamp it out with their own female agent, Sister Miriam Rose. But Sister Miriam has plans of her own. . . .