Tongue Disease
Tongue Disease is a collection comprising seven short stories written over a period of a few years, all set in and around a top secret government laboratory where research is conducted into mutating and weaponising language.
Tongue Disease features bacilli that can redact text, computer code that can erase human consciousness, memes designed as a method of social control, a truth serum culled from the DNA of authors (those inveterate liars), a “logovirus” that can disrupt speech patterns, and plenty more besides.
Contents
Author's Note
1. The Aklo Intelligence
2. Project: Verbivore
3. The Kamikaze Code
4. Test Subject
5. Let Dizööns be Dizööns
6. The Story Bug
7. The Bowdler Strain
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James Lovegrove
James Lovegrove is the New York Times bestselling author of The Age of Odin. He was shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1998 and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award in 2004, and reviews fiction for the Financial Times. He is the author of Firefly: Big Damn Hero with Nancy Holder, Firefly: The Magnificent Nine, and Firefly: The Ghost Machine, along with several Sherlock Holmes novels. He lives in south-east England.
James Lovegrove has also published books under the pseudonyms of J. M. H. Lovegrove and Jay Amory.
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