Embassytown by China Miéville

Embassytown by China Miéville

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.

China Miéville lives and works in London. He is three-time winner of the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award (Perdido Street Station, Iron Council and The City & The City) and has also won the British Fantasy Award twice (Perdido Street Station and The Scar). The City & The City, an existential thriller, was published to dazzling critical acclaim and drew comparison with the works of Kafka and Orwell (The Times) and Philip K. Dick (Guardian).

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ISBN 13	9780330533072
ISBN 10	033053307X
Title	Embassytown
Author	China Miéville
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Pan Macmillan
Year published	2012-01-05
Number of pages	416
Prizes	Winner of Locus Award Best Science Fiction Novel 2012 (UK), Short-listed for Nebula Award Best Novel 2012 (UK), Short-listed for The Arthur C. Clarke Award 2012 (UK), Short-listed for The Kitschies Red Tentacle Award for Best Novel 2012 (UK), Short-listed for BSFA Award for Best Novel 2012 (UK), Short-listed for Hugo Award For Best Novel 2012 (United States)
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