![]() ![]() She is a native of Embassytown, which occupies an uneasy position as a human outpost on the planet of Arieka. The clinical yet compelling Avice Brenner Cho narrates this alien contact adventure. At times "Embassytown" attains mastery – and at times it does not. As ever with such enterprises, it takes tremendous skill to make those ideas an organic part of story and of character. ![]() "Embassytown" follows hard on the heels of two other Miéville novels: the much-lauded philosophical police procedural cum fantasy "The City & The City" and the fun but overlong romp "Kraken." The new novel most closely resembles "The City & The City" in attempting to combine the grotesque physicality of The Weird with other genres – this time alien contact SF – while also engaging the reader at the level of Idea. Le Guin and Doris Lessing, China Miéville's often revelatory new novel Embassytown is three books in one: a tense political thriller an amazing, sometimes brutal rhapsody on the uses of language and a curiously flat account of civil war. Reminiscent of 1970s socio-political science fiction by the likes of Ursula K. ![]()
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