![]() ![]() ![]() I would have created the same complicated mash-up of women’s fiction, dystopia, and linguistic thriller. Still, I wouldn’t have written it any other way. I say ‘everywhere’ because, in hindsight, I piled so much into VOX-a little language science, a little politics, a little sex, and (of course) a healthy sprinkling of terror. Jean McClellan.Īlmost a year has passed since I typed “The End” on the last page of VOX, so I’ve had plenty of time to think about this novel that seemed to have come from nowhere. I mean that quite literally, so there's very little golden about silence to the protagonist, Dr. The penalties for exceeding this limit, as you’ll see, are shocking. You see, they spend their days in a sort of personal silence, thanks to the Pure Movement-a puritanical backlash sanctioned by the government that limits all females, from the old to the neonatal, to a daily quota of one hundred words. I have some serious doubts that the women in my novel, VOX, would agree. There’s a Latin saying you’ve heard: Silentium aurum est. ![]()
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