Battle of the Linguist Mages

✍ Scribed by Scotto Moore

• Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 332 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1250767725

✦ Synopsis

**"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
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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 morphemes"--unnaturally 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 may be the only thing stopping the cabal from toppling California over the edge of a terrible transformation, with forty million lives at stake.
Time is short for Isobel to level up and choose a side--because the cabal has attracted much bigger and weirder enemies than the anarchist resistance, emerging from dark and vicious dimensions of reality and heading straight for planet Earth!
At the...