@booklet {3465, title = {"Speech Sounds"}, howpublished = {Isaac Asimov{\textquoteright}s Science Fiction Magazine }, volume = {7.13 (73) }, year = {1983}, note = {

Rpt. in The Norton Book of Science Fiction: North American Fiction 1960-1990. Ed. Ursula K. Le Guin and Brian Attebery (New York: W.W. Norton, 1993), 513-24; in New Eves: Science Fiction About the Extraordinary Women of Today and Tomorrow. Ed. Janrae Frank, Jean Stine, \& Forrest J. Ackerman (Stamford, CT: Longmeadow Press, 1994), 337-47 with an editors\’ note on 336; in her Bloodchild and Other Stories (New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1995), 87-110 with an \“Afterword\” on 109-10; in A Woman\’s Liberation: A Choice of Futures By and About Women. Ed. Connie Willis and Sheila Williams (New York: Warner Books, 2001), 185-200; in Feminist Philosophy and Science Fiction: Utopias and Dystopias. Ed. Judith A. Little (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2007), 185-97; in Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2008), 245-55; in The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction. Ed. Arthur B. Evans, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., Joan Gordon, Veronica Hollinger, Rob Latham, and Carol McGuirk (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2010), 566-79 with an editors\’ note on 566-67; and in Kindred, Fledgling, Collected Stories. Ed. Gerry Canavan \& Nisi Shawl (New York: Library of America, 2021), 604-619, with a Chronology (743-755), a Note on the Text (758), and Notes (772).

}, month = {Mid-December 1983}, pages = {26-40}, abstract = {

Dystopia of the loss of the ability to communicate and the resulting violence. Those who can speak and write must keep it secret. African American female author.

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, issn = {1065-6298 }, author = {Octavia E[stelle] Butler (1947-2006)} }