Alien Talk: Second in the Newcomers Series

by William X. Adams

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.

319 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 4, 2019

About the author

I am a cognitive psychologist who left the university classroom for the information technology industry to find out if the mind is like a computer. I write psychological science fiction ("psi-fi") to dramatize what I learned. Contact me at www.psifibooks.com.

Reviews

[Gail Gibbs · Rating 4 out of 5]

In this sequel to Reluctant Android, Andy is joined by a female android, Robin, and together they ponder the relationship between language, sentience, and artificial intelligence, meanwhile scrambling to save humanity from itself. Which evolved first - a brain large enough to encompass the complexities of language, or rudimentary language which encouraged the development of larger brains? It's an interesting chicken-or-egg question, explored a fun way. An enjoyable sequel, and I look forward to reading the third book.