Adventure Meets Alien Bureaucracy in Eddie Robson’s Drunk on All Your Strange New Words

We’re thrilled to share the cover for Eddie Robson’s Drunk on All Your Strange New Words, a locked room mystery in a near future world of politics and alien diplomacy—arriving June 28, 2022 from Tordotcom Publishing.

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…

Cover design by Henry Sene Yee

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.

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