![]() The “don’t go as expected” part goes south quickly. ![]() Due to this intimate communiqué provided by the alien (Ei’Brai), on top of an already jaded military mindset, the commander doesn’t know if the alien has taken over Jane Holloway’s mind, is simply misleading her or is telling the truth. ![]() However, things don’t go as expected and the resident alien communicates exclusively with Jane Holloway and only within her mind. ![]() Theoretically, Jane Holloway, the linguist/scientist, takes command once onboard the alien vessel, Speroancora. Wells’ debut novel) and leads to some luscious tension between the military commander running the show from the command ship, the Providence. ![]() Who better to have first contact than someone trained in the first contact of other human people-groups with previously unmapped languages? It is an ingenious premise that’s well executed by Jennifer Wells (it’s a little hard to believe this is Ms. Fluency focuses on the premise that our interaction with alien species is all about communication and those who have a sympathetic ear to language have a sympathetic ear to the heart and mind of those who are utterly “other.” This leads us to a naturally-gifted linguists as our protagonist not typical of most SciFi and not boring, even if it sounds that way. ![]()
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