Tongue is published.

March 2, 2026, when I watched an AI model I had subscribed to three weeks earlier become a weapon in an airstrike. I turned off the television. What I found when I went looking became this.

They say if words could kill — as if that were still hypothetical.

Tongue moves through three futures and one past to ask the question the headlines won’t touch: not whether AI should be used in warfare, but whether the nation that builds the most powerful language model will need weapons at all. It traces the architecture from the slave manifest to the probability score, from Babel to Pentecost, from a bomb shelter in Dimona to a scratched laptop lid in Lagos.

I am looking for ten early readers — people who will give it their full attention and respond honestly.

If you read it, I will ask you five questions. Your answers stay between us unless you give me permission to use them. No cheerleading required. No expertise necessary. Just honest engagement with what the book made you think, feel, and understand.

If you are in, reach out through the contact page. I will send you the book and the questions.

Tongue is available now on Amazon.

— Tshombe