![]() They’re also sequestered from reading material and removed from the work force. Women and girls – even small children – are fitted with metal bracelets that track their word count and shock them if they go over. ![]() “This is how things are now: We have allotments of one hundred words a day.” They’ve been effectively silenced by a theocratic government controlled by the puritan, misogynist Pure Movement. In Dalcher’s near-future United States, women don’t get much say. Jean dismissed the premise outright: “This would never happen. Jean McClellan, recalls reading the back cover of an unnamed dystopian novel before her own world went full Gilead. The comparison is inevitable enough that Dalcher includes a nod, when her protagonist, neurolinguist Dr. The jacket copy of "Vox," the buzzy speculative fiction debut of eminent linguist Christina Dalcher, includes no fewer than three references to Margaret Atwood and her seminal novel " The Handmaid’s Tale." ![]()
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