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Embassytown
A Science Fiction Novel by China Miéville
Subgenres & Tropes:
- First Contact,
- Linguistic Science Fiction,
- Alien Invasion
This book is for you if you're into...
- Alien linguistics that reshape reality and relationships
- Characters literally woven into the language of another species
- Political intrigue where communication is the ultimate weapon
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. In the far future, humans have colonized a distant planet, home to the enigmatic Ariekei, sentient beings famed for a language unique in the universe, one that only a few altered human ambassadors can speak.
Avice Benner Cho, a human colonist, has returned to Embassytown after years of deep-space adventure. She cannot speak the Ariekei tongue, but she is an indelible part of it, having long ago been made a figure of speech, a living simile in their language.
When distant political machinations deliver a new ambassador to Arieka, the fragile equilibrium between humans and aliens is violently upset. Catastrophe looms, and Avice is torn between competing loyalties: to a husband she no longer loves, to a system she no longer trusts, and to her place in a language she cannot speak—but which speaks through her, whether she likes it or not.
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