![]() ![]() ![]() 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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