Winner of the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, China Miéville's astonishing Embassytown is an intelligent and immersive exploration of language in an alien world.
Embassytown: a city of contradictions on the outskirts of the universe.
Avice is an immerser, a traveller on the immer, the sea of space and time below the everyday, now returned to her birth planet. Here on Arieka, humans are not the only intelligent life, and Avice has a rare bond with the natives, the enigmatic Hosts - who cannot lie.
Only a tiny cadre of unique human Ambassadors can speak Language, and connect the two communities. But an unimaginable new arrival has come to Embassytown. And when this Ambassador speaks, everything changes.
Catastrophe looms. Avice knows the only hope is for her to speak directly to the alien Hosts.
And that is impossible.
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 9780330533072
Number of pages: 416
Weight: 282 g
Dimensions: 197 x 129 x 25 mm
I did find this book slow to get going and I must admit that for the 1st third of the book, I didn't really understand what it was about, but I hung in there and it became riveting. The plot and the ideas are... More
I like CM a lot and have enjoyed all his books apart from Iron Council which was dreary.
I really looked forward to this book but 100+ pages in I have given up. It is dull, dull, dull. Never have so many words...
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I've loved pretty much every China Mieville novel I've read, and I think Embassytown goes up there with my favourites (The Scar and Kraken). Like much of his work, it's a genre mash up with... More
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