Alien Talk

Alien Talk (sci-fi, 82,500 words): As millions of people become mute in a spreading pandemic, android Robin Taylor discovers that language is an intelligent virus that infected early humans and ultimately enabled modern civilization. Now the virus is enraged by the false language of talking technologies. But Robin is a talking gadget herself. Anyone she communicates with is stricken. Can she warn humans and stop the plague?

Alien Talk is the second book in the Newcomers series.