An alien ship crash lands on Earth, leaving its only occupant stranded. But in a fortunate twist, Earth is a hospitable planet for Veni, from the atmosphere and food to the friendly and intelligent inhabitants. The first such inhabitants Veni meets call themselves dwarves. And though they don’t understand the technology that brought the alien to them, they insist on being hospitable. Sure, Veni doesn’t understand why the inhabitants of this land insist on speaking a language that modifies for gender, but ze is anything if not adaptable—especially after ze meets Wystan, a man who speaks only with his hands.
Author
H.R. Harrison is the penname of an unfortunate soul whose ancestors opted to Americanize pronunciation… but not spelling. She is a linguist and ESL (English as Second Language) teacher by trade, and spends a lot of time thinking about communication, language, and how words… word. She has a love for fantasy, mythos, and genre subversion, and has a tendency to fall into research pits while trying to write. Therefore, she knows a lot of random trivia about a lot of random topics. Her hobbies include sleeping, getting far too invested in possibly queer fictional characters, and, recently, marveling at the weirdness of Madame d'Aulnoy's contes de fées in the original French. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name
