Drunk on All Your Strange New Words
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Eddie Robson
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.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...At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
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Author
Eddie Robson
Pages
256
Publisher
Tor Publishing Group
Published Date
2022-06-28
ISBN
1250807360 9781250807366
Ratings
Google: 5
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"An enjoyable read about a peaceful alien-human relationship where they mainly export our literature, with a snarky female narrator. Reminded me of Sanford's Saturn Run, Reid's Year Zero, and Space Opera. It is a murder mystery, but I wouldn't describe it as a locked room one. It's very obvious how the perps got in. Bit of gore at the end, but mostly just strong language and suicide references as triggers. Really like the word play of the title."
Jennifer
"As an aspiring translator, this book caught my eye right away. But if I had to pick my favourite thing about it? It'd be the title.<br/>I thought it was a fancy allegory of sorts, but reading into the first pages really made me enjoy the actual meaning behind it. Or maybe I'm just easily entertained.<br/><br/>Sadly the ending got a bit boring for me, but it was a good read nevertheless. Characters were likeable, the peek into what the future may be was distressing, it was all one would expect out of a future sci-fi kinda story.<br/><br/>Good book overall. Not a fave, but I had fun."
Agustina Aceste