Code and Codex
The epic new space opera from the author of Ninefox Gambit
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Profile Books Ltd
Publishing:4th Mar '27
£18.99
This title is due to be published on 4th March, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
A vast, ambitious space opera about the power of language and censorship by the bestselling author of Ninefox Gambit
Language is Control Aurelia, ruler of a corrupt galactic empire, commands the obedience of all who hear and understand her - and all languages other than her own are forbidden. Valentina, purchased as a child as Aurelia's bodyguard and servant, is responsible for extracting useful knowledge from foreign texts before erasing their languages wholesale. Sent to seize a book from an obscure world at the outskirts of the empire, Valentina returns with the key to controlling the most dangerous man in existence. The traitor Jenner burned out his knowledge of the empire's language before he was imprisoned, but the slender volume describes his long-extinct native tongue. But at the moment of Aurelia's triumph, Jenner escapes his ancient prison, and Valentina is sent to hunt him down...
Lee's spectacular return to space opera is a triumph - opulent, indulgent, and very, very sharp. I loved it -- Emily Tesh, Hugo Award-winning author of SOME DESPERATE GLORY
A science-fantasy that is bar none the Final Boss of language magic -- Rebecca Roanhorse, Hugo Award-winning author of BLACK SUN
If you like linguistics or space opera or math, you'll love Code and Codex! It's like nothing else I've ever read -- S. L. Huang, author of THE LANGUAGE OF LIARS
It's a delight to witness a master of the craft luxuriating in language... Yoon gives us an empire where everyone is guilty, everyone is complicit, and yet every word is a potential transformation -- Ursula Whitcher, Ursula K. Le Guin Prize-nominated author of NORTH CONTINENT RIBBON
Code and Codex is something special indeed . . . This novel is magnificent * Locus *
Absolutely sublime . . . Yoon Ha Lee has crafted something thornily transcendent * Lightspeed Magazine *
A dazzlingly immersive science-fantasy novel of linguistic domination that will keep hold of readers' minds as surely as the Peacock beguiles her subjects * Library Journal, starred review *
Imagine if Alan Moore wrote The Locked Tomb books and you might start to approach the insane word-drunk joys of Yoon Ha Lee's latest * Literary Hub *
Intricate and fascinating * Publishers Weekly *
PRAISE FOR THE AUTHOR 'A densely rendered, high-tech future universe, with intricate worldbuilding * Guardian *
Breathtakingly original space opera * New York Times *
Full of the kind of off-hand inventiveness that the best SF trades in
Fiercely original and enchanting -- Adrian Tchaikovsky
ISBN: 9781837867516
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: unknown
336 pages
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