Jorgen reviewed Embassytown by China Miéville
i dont think i got it 10/10
5 stars
you heard me
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Published Nov. 5, 2011 by Tor Books.
Embassytown
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.
speljamr reviewed Embassytown by China Miéville
Review of 'Embassytown' on 'Storygraph'
4 stars
Language is everywhere, it infects everything about who we are. China Miéville holds nothing back as he sets out to explore this topic in what is his first full length novel within a science fiction setting; and he achieves it with spectacular grace.
Miéville has never been an average author, he creates images and scenes unlike anything I've read from other sci-fi/fantasy authors; he is truly unique. Here he creates a world on the edge of the known universe, where there are beings who's speech is different from anything man has ever encountered in his exploration of space. And what that speech means to them, and how it can effect them is at the heart of this plot.
If you've never read any of Miéville's books, this may not be the one you want to start with, but it is worth the effort …
Language is everywhere, it infects everything about who we are. China Miéville holds nothing back as he sets out to explore this topic in what is his first full length novel within a science fiction setting; and he achieves it with spectacular grace.
Miéville has never been an average author, he creates images and scenes unlike anything I've read from other sci-fi/fantasy authors; he is truly unique. Here he creates a world on the edge of the known universe, where there are beings who's speech is different from anything man has ever encountered in his exploration of space. And what that speech means to them, and how it can effect them is at the heart of this plot.
If you've never read any of Miéville's books, this may not be the one you want to start with, but it is worth the effort once you start it. Linguists will probably get the most out of the explorations this book invites. The book is as intoxicating as language is to the Hosts and I had a difficult time putting it down.
Dan D reviewed Embassytown by China Miéville
Review of 'Embassytown' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
Good ideas middlingly executed
