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'Battle of the Linguist Mages' by Scotto Moore is a unique blend of complex plots, intricate magic systems, and linguistics. The book explores how language shapes reality, both virtual and otherwise, in a zany and smart manner. It features a strong, witty female lead with LGBTQ+ representation and a non-binary character, engaging MMO players with reinventions and reimaginings. The plot revolves around a first-person narrator, Isobel, dominating a video game and being recruited to help fight an alien invasion using linguistics and punctuation marks.
The writing style of 'Battle of the Linguist Mages' reads like a mashup of various popular books, such as Mr. Penumbra's 24 Hour Bookstore, Lexicon, Space Opera, and Ready Player One. It is described as a romp of a space opera, filled with glittering details, constantly shifting alliances, double and triple alliances, and ethical explorations relevant to our current and near future lives. The book is praised for its intricate puzzle-like plot, rich world-building details, and its ability to keep readers hooked from the first line to the very end.
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"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
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 Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
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This book was a little too weird for me.
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