| International Standard Book Number |
9781250405333
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| International Standard Book Number |
1250405335
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| Dewey Decimal Classification Number |
813/.6
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| Personal Name |
Huang, S. L., author.
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| Title Statement |
The language of liars / S.L. Huang.
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| Edition Statement |
First edition.
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| Imprint |
New York : Tor Publishing Group, 2026.
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| Physical Description |
viii, 159 pages ; 22 cm.
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| Summary, Etc. |
In his training as a spy, Ro was warned: you will always be living a lie. Jumping into a Star Eater's mind in the first place requires a moment of perfect psychic connection, and he has studied all his life to comprehend their species. Admires them, respects them, is reverent at the idea of being one of them?the only species physiologically capable of mining the element needed for lightyear-spanning space travel. The species all others crave to know more of, but who have notoriously shared so very little. The species Ro's own small civilization, with its dwindling resources and withering reach, needs to know more about. It will feel real, his elders impressed upon him. It will never be real. But Ro's certainty runs deep: he will be different. Ro will not be an imposter hiding the truth of his past, because his heart will be one of them. He will be one of them. To understand is to become. It never occurs to him that the mere act of understanding can destroy.
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| Summary, Etc. |
Ro is a spy. He has trained all of his life to jump into the mindof a Star Eater. He admires the Star Eaters and respects them as the only creatures physiologically capable of mining the elements necessary for lightyear-spanning space travel. He wants to understand them so fundamentally that he will become one--but it doesn't occur tohim that the act of understanding can cause destruction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Extraterrestrial beings Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Telepathy Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Extraterrestres Romans, nouvelles, etc.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Télépathie Romans, nouvelles, etc.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Fantasy fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Science fiction.
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