The Guild of Xenolinguists
by:
Sheila Finch (author)
The galaxy-wide Guild of Xenolinguists handles all cross-cultural communications by sending agents abroad to learn new languages and program translation computers. The travails of novice linguists animate these 11 stories as they face much more than simple translation work, taking on alien...
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The galaxy-wide Guild of Xenolinguists handles all cross-cultural communications by sending agents abroad to learn new languages and program translation computers. The travails of novice linguists animate these 11 stories as they face much more than simple translation work, taking on alien parasites and viruses, a mysterious and violent star-faring race, dolphin instructors, and large tyrant ants. As cultures and languages collide, first contact quickly becomes a matter of morality, galactic politics, death, and war.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781930846487 (1930846487)
Publish date: September 1st 2007
Publisher: Golden Gryphon Press
Pages no: 300
Edition language: English
Not much to say either bad or good about this collection. The basic premise is interesting enough: How will humans communicate with aliens. In Finch's future history, the Guild of Xenolinguists arises to meet that need.Unfortunately, Finch doesn't do a lot with the idea, preferring to remain within ...
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