As the only woman on the first contact team, xenolinguist Toni Donato expected her assignment on Christmas / Kailazh would be to analyze the secret women's language -- but then the chief linguist begins to sabotage her work. What is behind it? Why do the men and women have separate languages in the first place? What Toni learns turns everything she thought they knew on its head.
Looking Through Lace
Beyond the Waters of the World: Looking Through Lace, Book 2
by Ruth Nestvold
Series: Looking Through Lace.
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Words: 23,790.
Language:
English.
Published: July 17, 2017
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Categories:
Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera
The Allied Interstellar Community first contact team on the planet Kailazh is faced with even more challenges than most. But dealing with an alien culture is not only difficult for those who arrive on a foreign world. What of the inhabitants of the planet, who now have to deal with realities so strange to their way of thinking, it will have an impact on everything they believe?
Looking Through Lace
by Ruth Nestvold
Series: Looking Through Lace.
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Words: 19,340.
Language:
English.
Published: February 21, 2011
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Categories:
Fiction » Science fiction » Short stories, Fiction » Science fiction » General
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As the only woman on the first contact team, xenolinguist Toni Donato expected her assignment on Christmas would be to analyze the secret women's language which cannot be spoken by men -- but then the chief linguist begins to sabotage her work. But why? Why do the men and women have separate languages in the first place? What Toni learns turns everything they thought they knew on its head.
Looking Through Lace Boxed Set
by Ruth Nestvold
Series: Looking Through Lace.
Price:
$3.99 USD.
Words: 45,040.
Language:
American English.
Published: July 11, 2017
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Categories:
Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera, Fiction » Science fiction » Short stories
Books 1 & 2 of Looking Through Lace. As the only woman on the first contact team, xenolinguist Toni Donato expected her assignment on Kailazh would be to analyze the secret women's language -- but then the chief linguist begins to sabotage her work. What is behind it? Why do the men and women have separate languages in the first place? What Toni learns turns everything she knows on its head.