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When a dimensional tear opens above the Atacama Desert and an alien civilisation makes contact, the world expects a linguist. What they get is Dr. Daniel Osei, a man who has spent thirty years listening to people who can no longer speak, and who is about to discover that the most important conversation of his life is also the one he is least equipped to have.

The Verath have come a very long way. They experience time in reverse, moving through life toward forgetting rather than accumulation, and their language, Reveth, runs in the opposite direction to every human language ever documented. Their first gift to humanity was mistaken for a funeral urn. Their greeting was flagged as a threat. And their reason for making contact at all is something that Daniel will spend sixty-four days on a contact room floor trying to understand, one imperfect exchange at a time.

The Last Word is a story about the tragedy of miscommunication, about the gap between what we mean and what is heard, about institutions that cannot move as fast as understanding requires, and about one man learning, through the most extraordinary encounter in human history, something he should have known all along.

It is also a story about a single untranslatable word, used only once, and what it means to receive the shape of something you cannot fully hold.

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