Drunk on All Your Strange New Words

This grabbed me and didn't let go. I do wish there'd been a page at the end--just one scene--where someone involved explained to someone less involved exactly what happened and why. Really spelled it out for those of us who loved the ride but might have gotten a little dizzy along the way. Very Inception in that sense, no hand-holding which I admire, but could have used...just a little.

The concepts were brilliant. I loved all the questions this brought to my mind about deepfakes and truth and the power of culture and who controls it.

"But she doesn’t mind. She likes the weird."

Cool detective story wrapped into a post climate apocalypse world where aliens have come to visit and the only way to communicate with them is through thought.

A quirky alien / manhattan mystery, all of the sets and dimly futuristic premises sat well with an amiable lead, but my mystery satisfaction bar wasn't met by the ratcheting plot.

I reviewed this novel for the Hugo-winning blog Nerds of a Feather:

http://www.nerds-feather.com/2022/07/microreview-drunk-on-all-your-strange.html