Drunk on All Your Strange New Words
By Eddie Robson
The title needs some explaining. When the alien Logi arrive on Earth they require human translators to express their thought-language into words, a process that makes translators feel and act drunk.
Lydia Southwell is one such specially trained translator, assigned to the Logi ambassador Fitz. But when Fitz ends up murdered Lydia finds herself in the middle of an intergalactic murder mystery in which she’ll need some assistance from the dead ambassador, whose voice is still kicking around in her head.
There’s a lot going on in Drunk on All Your Strange New Words, and most of it is really good. The locked-room mystery is well handled while social media in the forms of up-to-the-minute tweets and news feeds (ranked for their truthiness) are deftly interwoven with a classic conspiracy-thriller plot. The result offers something fresh and engaging for fans of several genres.
Alex on SF 
Ok I’m in, need a new read.
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It’s a bit of fun, with some interesting ideas. Definitely a break from reading Nero Wolfe for the umpteenth time!
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Haha he’s very addictive.
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Just went to order the book and it’s WORDS not Worlds (it’s on the picture of the book cover there but I missed that cos you wrote ‘worlds’). 🤣
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Argh! Thanks. I spelled it right in the review. I just was in a brain fog when I wrote the title of the post.
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2 questions if I may.
1) Is Lydia nubile?
2) Does she go to church?
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I believe the answer to both those questions is no, but I may not be remembering correctly. I’m wondering though if Bookstooge is an emporium or an imperium. This might make a difference in my answer.
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Maybe it is both!
Fall down in abject worship, peasant, and buy something!
In regards to your answers, that is too bad. I guess John Wick still holds the trophy then….
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I’ll try to find some churchgoing SF moving forward, but it’s going to be hard . . .
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I think if you watch enough Little House on the Prairie that you’ll see a church or two 😀
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Just finished this book. Bloody excellent, loved it! I want to be a translator for the Logi!
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Great! And holy smokes you’re fast!
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Haha just read whenever I can, in between patients, in waiting rooms at docs and dentists etc, at bedtime and in tea breaks at home. Looking forward to your next recommendation!
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