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This is a stand-alone novel with material enough for six... By the halfway point, it had blown my mind twice... an audacious, genre-bending whirlwind. New York Times

It reads like Snow Crash had a dance-off with Gideon the Ninth, in a world where language isn''t a virus from outer space, it''s a goddamn alien invasion. Charles Stross

In modern day Los Angeles, a shadowy faction led by the Governor of California develops the arcane art of combat linguistics, planting the seeds of a future totalitarian empire in Scotto Moore''s thrilling Battle of the Linguist Mages.

Isobel is the Queen of the medieval rave-themed VR game Sparkle Dungeon. Her prowess in the game makes her an ideal candidate to learn the secrets of power morphemesunnaturally dense units of meaning that warp perception when skilfully pronounced.

But Isobel's reputation makes her the target of a strange resistance movement led by spellcasting anarchists, who

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      Publisher: St Martin's Press
      Publication Date: 12/12/2022
      ISBN13: 9781250767707, 978-1250767707
      ISBN10: 1250767709
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      This is a stand-alone novel with material enough for six... By the halfway point, it had blown my mind twice... an audacious, genre-bending whirlwind. New York Times

      It reads like Snow Crash had a dance-off with Gideon the Ninth, in a world where language isn''t a virus from outer space, it''s a goddamn alien invasion. Charles Stross

      In modern day Los Angeles, a shadowy faction led by the Governor of California develops the arcane art of combat linguistics, planting the seeds of a future totalitarian empire in Scotto Moore''s thrilling Battle of the Linguist Mages.

      Isobel is the Queen of the medieval rave-themed VR game Sparkle Dungeon. Her prowess in the game makes her an ideal candidate to learn the secrets of power morphemesunnaturally dense units of meaning that warp perception when skilfully pronounced.

      But Isobel's reputation makes her the target of a strange resistance movement led by spellcasting anarchists, who

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