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Item Details
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EMBASSYTOWN
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| By: |
China Mieville |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
| List price:
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£8.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0230760414 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780230760417 |
| Publisher: |
PAN MACMILLAN |
| Pub. date: |
1 May, 2011 |
| Pages: |
400 |
| Description: |
The enthralling new novel from the award-winning author of Kraken and The City & The City |
| Synopsis: |
Winner of the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, China Mieville'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. |
| Reader Age: |
From 16 years |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Tor |
| Prizes: |
Winner of Locus Award Best Science Fiction Novel 2012
Short-listed for The Arthur C. Clarke Award 2012
Short-listed for Nebula Award Best Novel 2012
Short-listed for Hugo Award For Best Novel 2012
Short-listed for The Kitschies Red Tentacle Award for Best Novel 2012
Short-listed for BSFA Award for Best Novel 2012 |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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