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Dalcher, Christina

Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.

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(?1968-    ) US theoretical linguist and author whose first novel Vox (2018) intensifies (if possible) the Dystopian nightmare of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale (1985) through the depiction of a Near Future America where females are allowed to speak only 100 words a day; the penalties for disobedience are sadistic (see Crime and Punishment; Feminism; Women in SF). A certain allegorical thinness typical of Mainstream Writers of SF is both abandoned and affirmed in the second half of the tale, when groups of women rebel with an ease that seems implausible. In Master Class (2020; vt Q 2020), children succeed or fail through a maniacally rigid testing system (see Education in SF). Femlandia (2021) is also set in a Near Future America, in this case after an almost total Economic collapse; the protagonist and her teenage daughter escape to one of the "femlandias" founded by her now-dead mother. These femlandias are "women"-only – women being defined in a way so as to exclude any transgender women (see Transgender SF) – who are fertilized with the extracted seed of boys brought up languageless, suffering tortures en passant. In all three novels children are savage to their parents. [JC]

Christina Dalcher

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  • Vox (New York: Berkley Books, 2018) [hb/]
  • Master Class (New York: Berkley Books, 2020) [hb/]
    • Q (London: Harper Collins Publishers, 2020) [vt of the above: hb/]
  • Femlandia (New York: Berkley Books, 2021) [hb/]

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