Drunk on All Your Strange New Words
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Tor/Forge · Ebook · June 13, 2023
Eddie Robson's Drunk on All Your Strange New Words is a locked room mystery in a near future world of politics and alien diplomacy.
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- Who it’s for
- A locked-room mystery where alien diplomacy makes translation—and political trouble—feel delightfully unstable.
- Themes
- Alien diplomacy, Translation across cultures, Intergalactic incident
- Genres
- Sci-Fi Crime, Alien Contact, Mystery
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Eddie Robson's Drunk on All Your Strange New Words is a locked room mystery in a near future world of politics and alien diplomacy. Lydia works as translator for the Logi cultural attaché to Earth. They work well together, even if the act of translating his thoughts into English makes her somewhat wobbly on her feet. She’s not the agency’s best translator, but what else is she going to do? She has no qualifications, and no discernible talent in any other field.
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So when tragedy strikes, and Lydia finds herself at the center of an intergalactic incident, her future employment prospects look dire—that is, if she can keep herself out of jail! But Lydia soon discovers that help can appear from the most unexpected source…
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A locked-room mystery where alien diplomacy makes translation—and political trouble—feel delightfully unstable.
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- A translator caught between alien diplomacy and an intergalactic incident
Expect
- Near-future political intrigue wrapped around a locked-room mystery
Where it sits
| Sci-Fi Crime | 96% |
|---|---|
| Alien Contact | 86% |
| Mystery | 30% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Sci-Fi Adventure
- Alien Contact
- Sci-Fi Crime
- Authors
- Eddie Robson
- Publisher
- Tor/Forge
- Published
- June 13, 2023
- Format
- Ebook
- Theme
- Alien diplomacy · Translation across cultures · Intergalactic incident
- Reading lane
- Sci-Fi Adventure