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Nebula Award Winner A struggling linguist, a sheltered debutante, and a strangely silent child are running for their lives, trapped in the violent confluence of three species, only one of which is human. The Xenolinguist stories are fast-paced, gripping explorations of cross-cultural communication as well as perennial fan favorites. The Nebula Award-winning novella Reading the Bones has now been expanded to novel length, following xenolinguist Ries Danyo and sisters Lita and Jilan Patel to show more their pivotal roles in shaping the future of the Frehti. show lessTags
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A story about aliens, languages and a galactic guild of linguists. I wasn't very interested in the alien culture, which was the meat of the book, and even less in the linguists' guild and the girls of the ruling Patel family. I was bored. It was the wrong book for me; I finished just because it was moderately short.
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Sheila Finch taught creative writing and the literature of science fiction at El Camino College, California
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- Original publication date
- 2003-09-00
- People/Characters
- Ries Danyo; Lita Patel; Jilan Patel
- Dedication
- For David Yates, brother-in-heart
- First words
- Someone was trying to tell him something.
- Publisher's editor
- Weisman, Jacob
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- Members
- 90
- Popularity
- 358,130
- Reviews
- 1
- Rating
- (3.50)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 4
- ASINs
- 3
