| Edition |
First Edition. |
| Description |
441 pages ; 22 cm |
| Note |
" Tordotcom Book." |
| Summary |
"In modern day Los Angeles, a shadowy faction led by the Governor of California develops the arcane art of combat linguistics, planting the seeds of a future totalitarian empire in Scott Moore's Battle of the Linguist Mages. 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!"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Video games -- Fiction.
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Persuasion (Psychology) -- Fiction.
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Imaginary wars and battles -- Fiction.
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FICTION / Science Fiction / Alien Contact.
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FICTION / Science Fiction / Action & Adventure.
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| Genre/Form |
Science fiction.
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Science fiction.
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| ISBN |
9781250767721 (hardcover) |
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1250767725 (hardcover) |
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