Embassytown

Sobre o livro

Winner of the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, China Miéville's astonishing Embassytown is an intelligent and immersive exploration of language in an alien world. Embassytown: a city of contradictions on the outskirts of the universe. Avice is an immerser, a traveller on the immer, the sea of space and time below the everyday, now returned to her birth planet. Here on Arieka, humans are not the only intelligent life, and Avice has a rare bond with the natives, the enigmatic Hosts - who cannot lie. Only a tiny cadre of unique human Ambassadors can speak Language, and connect the two communities. But an unimaginable new arrival has come to Embassytown. And when this Ambassador speaks, everything changes. Catastrophe looms. Avice knows the only hope is for her to speak directly to the alien Hosts. And that is impossible.

De onde vem a nota

As fontes têm média 7,7 em 298 avaliações — ainda poucas, então o voto dos leitores carrega 66% do peso e o restante puxa para a média de Ficção científica, 7,8. É assim que sai 7,7.

Vozes dos leitores

As resenhas mais curtidas no Hardcover (com crédito aos autores).

• EN

  “I enjoyed Miéville's literary, weird prose (especially the beginning 'proem') and the rich world building. I appreciated the alienness of the aliens, especially the uncanny, slightly Lovecraftian world of doors with ears. Language, mind, and reality are central themes in the book and the TLDR…”

  ★ 4/5Alex_Golub no Hardcover

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