The Naming Song by Jedediah Berry
The Naming Song (2024), by Jedediah Berry, is an ambitious work with a thoughtful and thought-provoking premise, and if (for me at least), it didn’t fully carry through on that ambition or premise, I’ve got to give credit to Berry for the reach. Certainly, given both that ambition and the level of writing here, I’ll look forward to what comes next from them (and also check out some prior work).
The story is set in world that developed after a great cataclysm that seemingly erased all language (amongst more tangible losses;
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