Winner of the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel,China Mi茅ville'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.
Publisher: Pan MacmillanISBN: 9780330533072Number of pages: 416Weight: 282 gDimensions: 199 x 132 x 31 mm
China Mi茅ville
Author,visionary,revolutionary. London born fantasy author China Mi茅ville is a gifted creative chameleon and a favourite with Waterstones'readers. His impressively varied body of work includes fantasy novels: Perdido Street Station,The Scar and Iron Council (known collectively as The Bas Lag Trilogy),Railsea,Embassy Town and Un Lun Dun as well as the existential thriller,The City and the City and novellas The Last Days of New Paris and This Census-Taker.
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