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Avice Benner Cho, a human colonist on a distant planet populated by the Ariekei, sentient beings famed for their unique language, returns to Embassytown after many years of deep space exploration to find she has become a living simile in the Ariekei language even though she cannot speak it, and she is torn by competing loyalties when hostilities erupt between humans and aliens.
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Embassytown, China Miéville
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- Released
- 2011
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- Title
- Embassytown
- Language
- English
- Authors
- China Miéville
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Released
- 2011
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0230754317
- ISBN13
- 9780230754317
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Science Fantasy, Linguistics, Space Opera, Steampunk, Extraterrestrial Civilizations, Weird & New Weird, Locus Poll Award, Ambassadors, Interlinguistics
- First published
- 2011
- Original title
- Embassytown
- Rating
- 3.95 out of 5
- Description
- Avice Benner Cho, a human colonist on a distant planet populated by the Ariekei, sentient beings famed for their unique language, returns to Embassytown after many years of deep space exploration to find she has become a living simile in the Ariekei language even though she cannot speak it, and she is torn by competing loyalties when hostilities erupt between humans and aliens.