Embassytown - Review
Link to the author's (C. Miéville) personal website
Genre: Sci-Fi
Publication Type: Book
Tags:
- Average Age of Main Characters (35)
- Length (5 / 10)
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Blurb: 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.
Review: This was an iffy not-recommend from me..... It's just on the cusp of recommend, and I think others might enjoy it. The story is unique, as usual with C. Miéville. The book is dark however, and I found that it took me a-while to finish despite it being somewhat small. I'd still recommend this book if you're looking for some new sci-fi or want to see a completely foreign culture.