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Original Title:	Embassytown
ISBN:	0345524497 (ISBN13: 9780345524492)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Ezra, Avice, Scile
Literary Awards:	Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novel (2012), Nebula Award Nominee for Best Novel (2011), Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (2012), Arthur C. Clarke Award Nominee for Best Novel (2012), Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis Nominee for Bestes ausländisches Werk (Best Foreign Work) (2013) British Science Fiction Association Award Nominee for Best Novel (2011), Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award (RT Award) for Best Science Fiction Novel (2011), John W. Campbell Memorial Award Nominee for Best Science Fiction Novel (2012), Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire Nominee for Roman étranger and Traduction (2016), Premio Ignotus for Mejor novela extranjera (Best Foreign Novel) (2014), The Kitschies Nominee for Red Tentacle (Novel) (2011), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Science Fiction (2011), Seiun Award 星雲賞 Nominee for Best Translated Long Form (2014)

Embassytown Hardcover | Pages: 345 pages

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Title	:	Embassytown
Author	:	China Miéville
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 345 pages
Published	:	May 17th 2011 by Del Rey
Categories	:	Science Fiction. Fiction. Fantasy

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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 yet speaks through her.

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The girl who wanted to be a metaphor.There is a certain What the hell?? quality about a China Mieville novel, especially in the first few pages. The City and the City continued on in this quizzical, absurdist mouth breathing until damn near the middle of the book. To put in Forrest Gump terms, the box of chocolates may reveal pieces that are most definitively NOT chocolate, are in point of fact not even food; some bite-sized morsels may be poison. The box may even be a prop from a Justin

In ninth grade, Mrs. Muench--who had an uncanny resemblance to Miss Marple's friend Dolly Bantry--endeavored to teach us the difference between similes and metaphors. Similes use "like" and "as" to compare two unlike things.Metaphors state two unlike things are the same.But dear, enthusiastic Mrs. Muench could not have anticipated China's sophistry: metaphors are lies.Embassytown is a deep-thinking book, not one to pick up if you are in a the mood for a fast action read. China's use of a

What is Embassytown about?Embassytown is about reality.Embassytown is about how we make reality.Embassytown is about how we speak reality.Embassytown is reality.Embassytown is unreal.Embassytown is about religion.Embassytown is about the spirit.Embassytown is about being incorruptible. Embassytown is about corruption.Embassytown is corruption.Embassytown is about the opiated masses.Embassytown is about what opiates the masses.Embassytown is about any opiates for any masses.Embassytown is

3.5 starsThis was my 2nd experience with China Mieville, and just like the first--I read The City & the City earlier this year--it was an unparalleled reading experience. One thing I commend Mieville for is his incredibly inventive mind. His ability to create worlds, characters, histories, storylines and all the elements required to develop such complex novels is really astounding. In Embassytown we follow Avice [forgive me for any spelling errors in this review, I listened to the audiobook

Proem: In Which an Ambassador Iangrayetiates Himself With His Host With ImpunityIs a simileLike a metaphor?I cannot espouseThis figure of speech.This not unlike that?One word a signpost?Can this be that, orWould subject object?How could I be you?Worse still, you be me?Well, I know my place,I'm not one to boast.I am, like, content To be just a guest,Sometimes arriving First and leaving last.Not competitive,Neither least nor most.A figure of speech,An Ambassador,If you please, beyond Compare and

This is a linguistic SF, which was nominated for both Hugo and Nebula in 2011. It was read as a paret of Authors birthday challenge in Hugo & Nebula Awards: Best Novels group.There are quite a few SF works that make languages their main topic, including The Languages of Pao, Babel-17 and Native Tongue. This one is the great addition to the bunch.The story is set in a distant future on a far-away planet Arieka. The protagonist, a female hyperspace (immer) pilot Avice Benner Cho. She grew up

China Mieville is not the first writer to tackle the idea of language in a sci-fi setting (Im thinking of Stephensons Snow Crash (https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...), which drove me insane, and Ted Chiangs story Stories of Your Life (https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...), which was amazing but Im sure there are others); but if you know me, you know Mr. Mieville makes me weak in the knees I read this book when it first came out and recently had an itching to re-read it: my husband is