Drunk on All Your Strange New Words

Written by Eddie Robson

Narrated by Amy Scanlon

Eddie Robson’s Drunk on All Your Strange New Words is a locked-room mystery in a near-future world of politics and alien diplomacy.

Lydia works as translator for the Logi cultural attaché to Earth. They work well together, even if the act of translating his thoughts into English makes her somewhat wobbly on her feet. She’s not the agency’s best translator, but what
else is she going to do? She has no qualifications and no discernible talent in any other field.

So when tragedy strikes and Lydia finds herself at the center of an intergalactic incident, her future employment prospects look dire—that is, if she can keep herself out of jail!

But Lydia soon discovers that help can appear from the most unexpected source. …

• Language: English
• Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
• Release date: Jun 28, 2022
• ISBN: 9781705062890

Eddie Robson

Eddie Robson is a British comedy and science fiction writer best known for his sitcom Welcome to Our Village, Please Invade Carefully and his work on a variety of spin-offs from the BBC Television series Doctor Who. He has written books, comics, short stories, and for television and theatre, and has worked as a freelance journalist for various science fiction magazines.

Reviews for Drunk on All Your Strange New Words

[Katie Pershon · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

First, Amy Scanlon did an amazing job narrating, finding the perfect balance of inflection without breaking the spell.

I honestly can’t say what I was expecting when I started this book, and I am in no way disappointed at its end. It was fun, heartfelt, but also had a gripping story that kept me in my car several times after I’d turned off the engine. I’d highly recommend it.

[glennis.leblanc · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

review to come

Set near the end of the 21st century where we have had contact with another species and they have ambassadors and trade with us. People who can’t do VR turn out to be great at communicating with the Logi, mind to mind the downside is it makes the human act drunk if they do it for too long of a period of time. Lydia had been working for the cultural attaché for less than a year when she wakes up one morning to find he has been murdered and she was the only other person in the house and all video recordings are missing. While suspicion is on her she returns to the house and then hears the ghost of her boss in her head. With a few sentences she is off and running to find the real killer of her boss. This is a mystery but there is a lot of extrapolations of how society will be moving into the future. I really enjoyed the worldbuilding in here and would certainly like to see a story that covers the first contact between humans and Logi.

Digital review copy provided by the publisher through Edelweiss

[jennybeast · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Really cool story — love the satisfyingly alien aliens, love the way the translation works. I was delighted at how that mechanism plays out through the plotline, and at the solid mystery. Yes please, and more of that.

Advanced readers copy provided by Edelweiss