Read an Excerpt From The Language of Liars by S.L. Huang

An excerpt from S.L. Huang’s science fiction novella, *The Language of Liars*, has been shared. The novella, releasing from Tordotcom Publishing, involves a spy named Ro who must connect with an alien species. To understand is to become, but the act of understanding can destroy. Ro was warned that he would always be living a lie. The Orro Primaries were skeptical, but the Master Linguist said that understanding causes the jump and language is the tool. In Birjivina, doubt meant a question, while in another language, everything could be made negative.

• In his training as a spy, Ro was warned: you will always be living a lie.
• To understand is to become.
• It never occurs to him that the mere act of understanding can destroy.

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