HT#75: A Desolation Called Peace, by Arkady Martine (feat. Cora Buhlert)
Hugos There Podcast
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The New Ambassador to the Text Kalam Empire
This is the first contact novel and it focuses quite a lot on linguistics. The main plot is also well it's Mahit and three seagrass and nine he Biscus trying to figure out what the aliens want and communicate with them. I studied English and linguistics as part of the courses you take in university, which one has actually never heard of.
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