The aliens have existed there before humans arrived. Town? There must be a better title, right?Įmbassytown is a story of humans and aliens living in one world. Embassy implies some sort of bureaucracy, lining up to process your visa, overall waiting and hours of boredom. Really? Embassytown? Two very boring words in the English language joined to make an even more dull word. It's so bad and doesn't reflect the story at all. Le Guin herself gave a positive review of the book.īefore anything else, I would like to complain before I get to the shinier bits. Embassytown is probably the second best next to The Scar. If you have been checking this blog for a while, you probably know by now that I am a China Miéville convert. Powers like subaltern gods, which sometimes watched us as if we were interesting, curious dust, which provided our biorigging, and to which the Ambassadors alone spoke." The indigenes, in whose city we had been graciously allowed to build Embassytown, Hosts were cool, incomprehensible presences. It looked at me, I think: I think the constellation of forking skin that was its lustreless eyes regarded me. The Host came forward with its swaying grace, in complicated articulation. I stood immediately, out of the respect I’d been taught and my child’s fear.
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