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I can always count on China Miéville to write an outstanding, mindbendingly great novel. Embasstown is one in a long line of these. It deals with one of my favorite issues: how language controls thought. We have aliens with a unique type of language where only truths can be told and people become similes. There are human ambassadors that have been surgically enhanced to communicate with these aliens as multi-voiced, sentient life forms. The government has its own secret plans for the aliens, the colony and the planet. Throw in a spy, a obsessed linguist and a visionary alien into their midst and stir vigorously. The result is an unexpected and thought provoking tale.

If you haven't read Miéville before, you may want to start with The Kracken, which is a bit lighter work out on the brain, but definitely dive right in. My favorite is The City in the City - a little book with a big punch, but decide for yourself. He is habit forming.


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Embassytown China Mieville 9780345524492 Books Reviews

Once again I've taxed my mind with China Mieville's words that are untranslatable, or seem germane, but are actually neologistical. If you read this weird sci-fi novel, have a lexicon handy! This book is filled with new sci-fi ideas that make it an enjoyable read. When have you read about buildings, machinery, or houses that are semi-sentient and when under stress try to grow ears? It's a common thing in Embassytown, or in the Arieka city that surrounds it. I have to give Mieville credit for having excellent adoxography for things or events that other writers wouldn't even amplify.

The first third of the novel flip-flops between past and present on the planet Arieka and the immer. The immer is some kind of sub space that a immerser travels through in space and time, if that makes any sense. The narrator of the book is Avice Benner Cho, who has just return from the immer to visit her birth place of Embassytown with her new husband Scile, a expert in languages. He wants to study the linguistics of the Ariekei, who surround the human compound. They are known as the Hosts and speak out of two mouths ( the cut and turn ) and only communicate with human Ambassadors. The Ambassadors are actually doppels that speak from one mind and two voices, otherwise the Hosts would only hear noise. This sounds like a normal story, right? Now keep in mind that a Host ( who looks like a large dual winged insect ) also requires similes to make comparisons to things that are unlike in order to communicate properly. Our narrator is one of the similes known as " The girl who was hurt in darkness and ate what was given to her "! I forgot to mention that these truly unusual Ariekei Hosts are also incapable of lying! Does the story have your interest yet?

The trouble begins when a new Ambassador, EzRa, arrives from the human's home planet of Bremen to become the new chief Ambassador of Embassaytown. At the Embassy reception, EzRa tells the Hosts " That it was a honor to meet them ". Suddenly everything changes! Years of peace and calm are gone. What happened and what did the Hosts hear? What was said that brings the Hosts to a high state of mulligrubs! This is where the essence of the story takes off, later to culminate in an interesting and unexpected end. The books I've read by Mieville are entertaining ,but with all the lacunae and peculiar vocabulary used, I'm always glad that the book is over. Is this good, or bad?

The Hosts are probably the weirdest aliens I've read about since Larry Niven's elephant like creators in the famous sci-fi novel,"Footfall". This is the first novel Mieville has done in science fiction, and I think it was a good effort. Maybe he should be hired to write the script for the next "Star Trek" movie. I have to tell the reader while I recommend reading this novel, I warn you It's going to be a arduous task!
Embassytown is a remote outpost deep in space. Mankind has established a tenuous relationship with the local aliens a remarkable species that speaks speaks an at once simple and remarkably profound language that is completely without the ability to refer to anything other than what actually is.

I thoroughly enjoyed this novel. The world created here is fun. Embassytown is a point of contact where humans exist near an alien race with whom we can only communicate through specially raised twins, conjoined mentally through technology, in order to serve as ambassadors for humans. The alien-ness of the language is remarkable.

The “work” that language does is at the center of a plot that weaves galactic and local politics into a brisk adventure. I gained a new appreciation for just how complex creating and understanding simile and metaphor are and how central they are to our language.

I’d like to note that also own the audio companion to the kindle edition, and in this case highly recommend it. The aliens speak through two speech organs (which is why twins are needed as ambassadors). Textually this speech is represented as one word over another (like a fraction). The audiobook has the narrator read both words and plays them together so we can hear the representation of the words accurately .
I can always count on China Miéville to write an outstanding, mindbendingly great novel. Embasstown is one in a long line of these. It deals with one of my favorite issues how language controls thought. We have aliens with a unique type of language where only truths can be told and people become similes. There are human ambassadors that have been surgically enhanced to communicate with these aliens as multi-voiced, sentient life forms. The government has its own secret plans for the aliens, the colony and the planet. Throw in a spy, a obsessed linguist and a visionary alien into their midst and stir vigorously. The result is an unexpected and thought provoking tale.

If you haven't read Miéville before, you may want to start with The Kracken, which is a bit lighter work out on the brain, but definitely dive right in. My favorite is The City in the City - a little book with a big punch, but decide for yourself. He is habit forming.