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KLOVA

Karen Langston

ISBN 978-1-915853-80-6

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Publication: 25 JANUARY 2024
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ISBN: 9781915853806
Price: £9.99
Binding: Paperback

Format: 216 x 138 mm
Extent: 300 pp
Thema: FLP Science Fiction

Author location: Kent
Comparative title: 9781913551599 Bluemantle

• A sci-fi novel imagining a world where humans are
unable to naturally acquire language and are
instead reliant on an implant in order to think speak
and know.
• When the code within the language implant
mutates, the imagined island nation of Iso-Klovaine
must face the possibility of losing vast swathes of
language, concept and understanding.
• Inspired by the impact and power of language in
society and the lively debate around AI in the
context of language and the written word.
Karen Langston is a novelist writing speculative fiction for adults.
Her first novel, Bluemantle, is a bold work of dystopian fiction inspired All language is artificial. And it has started to disappear.
by her love of live music. Klova is her second novel, in which she
draws on her interest in language and its impact on society. She has Ink had cut himself off after the death of his partner, Neav, a
an MA in English from the University of Kent and was a secondary decade ago. However, he wakes one day to find he has no
school teacher of English. Karen lives in Kent. concept of the past and can only think of Neav in the present
tense. Social media reports two dozen cases in a so-called
‘amnesia crisis’. Ink knows his new loss has nothing to do with
memory. As does Ihlo.

Ihlo, a votary in the Order, has sworn an oath to protect Klova –
the artificial language that enables everyone to think, speak and
know. She’s certain the impossible has happened: a corruption in
the code. However, her sudden suspension forces her to act
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to find the fault and stem the spread. Ink and Ihlo’s own desperate
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without notice. 11/08/2023 When the corruption mutates, all are forced to ask: what next?
Where will this end? Which concepts will we lose? What words
will we have left?