_The science of language--an overly-neglected field for the extrapolations of science-fiction--is put to brilliant use in this powerful story. Against a background of ultimate peril from a galactic invader, man (in this case, woman) goes back beyond Babel to recall for humanity the places of the soul, where words are not enough._ Every mind on earth capable of understanding the problem was focused on the spaceship and the ultimatum delivered by its occupants. _Talk or Die!_ blared the newspaper headlines.…
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