Reading the Bones

✍ Scribed by Finch, Sheila

• Book ID: 108461400
• Publisher: Tachyon Pub.
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 98 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

This skilful 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 fallen to interpreting for the deputy commissioner's wife on her shopping sprees in the Freh bazaar. But when a Freh uprising leads to murder, Danyo must lead the commissioner's daughters to safety on a journey that irrevocably changes the Frehti language and the future of Krishna itself.

Review

"This short novel, expanded from one of her stories, a Nebula winning novella, . . . is her best novel to date." -- Don D'Ammassa, San Francisco Chronicle __

About the Author

Sheila Finch was born in London, studied Medieval Literature and Linguistics at Indiana University, and currently teaches creative writing at El Camino College in California.