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Conlangery SPECIAL #2: Too Like the Lightning

Conlangery Podcast

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The Importance of They in Narrative

'Epocene they' is a novel about the future of gender. The book uses he and she to refer to an unspecified singular gender. 'It's been fantastic watching how rapidly that practice has spread from being a much derided slang to being something that journals and so on are accepting,' says author, who finished first draft 10 years ago.

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