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Reading the Bones

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This skillful and entertaining exploration of language and cross-cultural communication presents a portrait of sentient beings in the midst of discovering written language. The Xenolinguists are a guild of alien-language translators who travel the galaxy. Translator Ries Danyo is a down-on-his-luck lingster, so far gone he's hooked on zyth. Once a promising talent, he's fa...more
Paperback, 254 pages
Published October 1st 2003 by Tachyon Publications (first published September 25th 2003)
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