Embassytown - Aliens who are truly alien and a wild, techno-organic world!
This book by China Miéville is a masterpiece, a rare, unanimous 5/5. An incredible world / universe, a gripping story, and some really wild philosophy about language and trying to communicate with aliens who are truly, truly alien.
Hugonauts: The Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time · Brent Gaisford, Cody Troyer
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Show Notes
There is only one human settlement on the planet of Arieka. There, in Embassytown, a young woman named Avice grows up in a strange world between worlds, where all that is human and all that is alien collide without ever really coming together. That's not much of a summary, but this is a book that really benefits from going in mostly blind, so we made sure to keep things really clean in the pre-spoilers section too.
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Similar books we recommend:
- Babel-17 by Samuel Delany
- City and the City or anything else by China Miéville
- A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge