{"product_id":"battle-of-the-linguist-mages-9781250767707","title":"Battle of the Linguist Mages","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"This is a stand-alone novel with material enough for six... By the halfway point, it had blown my mind twice... an audacious, genre-bending whirlwind.\" --\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"It reads like \u003ci\u003eSnow Crash\u003c\/i\u003e had a dance-off with\u003ci\u003e Gideon the Ninth\u003c\/i\u003e, in a world where language isn't a virus from outer space, it's a goddamn alien invasion.\" --Charles Stross  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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 Scotto Moore's thrilling \u003ci\u003eBattle of the Linguist Mages.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIsobel 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTime 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!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Tordotcom\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/22\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250767707\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 448","brand":"Scotto Moore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42406073860277,"sku":"9781250767707","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_e0ed6996-8f55-48a9-9e6d-c0cd93b7cfb9.jpg?v=1664285956","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/battle-of-the-linguist-mages-9781250767707","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}