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The Word Exchange
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The Word Exchange
novel by Alena Graedon
The Word Exchange is a science fiction novel by Alena Graedon, published in It is a dystopianthriller set in the not very distant future when the printed word has nearly vanished, technology dominates, and language has become a commodity. An online "Word Exchange" has taken the effort out of looking up words, a mere convenience until real dictionaries are no longer available. Then it becomes possible to corner the market for words. The novel has been translated into eight different languages.[1]
Plot
[edit]Anana Johnson's father, world renowned linguist and Chief Editor of the North American Dictionary of the English Language, has gone missing. Doug (Douglas Samuel Johnson) was in his Manhattan office at the Dictionary seeing to the last details before the 3rd edition went to press, and then he was not. Even his name was missing from the Dictionary database, one clue among several he has left behind for his daughter.
In the post-print world of the not very distant future, Anana had been enjoying her job at the NADEL, a scholarly foundation-funded project, even though she was not much of a reader, herself. Like most people, she got all the news and narrative she wanted on her "Meme," an artificially intelligent
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Alena Graedon
Alena Graedon's first novel, The Word Exchange, was a New York Times Editors' Choice and Paperback Row pick, and it was selected as a best novel of by Kirkus, Electric Literature, and Tor. It has been translated into eight languages. Graedon’s short stories have appeared in The Paris Review, VICE, North American Review, Southern Indiana Review, Pleiades, and Southern Humanities Review. Her nonfiction has been published in The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker online, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Believer, Tablet, and Guernica, among other publications.
Graedon has received fellowships from MacDowell, Yaddo, Ucross, Jentel, Lighthouse Works, VCCA, and The Vermont Studio Center. A native of North Carolina, Graedon is a graduate of Brown University and Columbia University's MFA program. She lives in Brooklyn, New York with her husband.