![]() ![]() It’s about people unwilling to accept drastic change and how that can tear apart and create new societies. ![]() It is about politics and hidden agendas revolutions and unlikely heroes. It’s about truth and lies and the grey area between where it overlaps and merges and the paradox that is language. It is about language and how it defines a culture so completely. Set in some distant indeterminate future on the planet of Arieka, this great read is about a town’s struggle to come to grips with a very alien language and the race that speaks it. A really good book makes one think about what one is reading constantly offering fresh but rewarding challenges. This is the author’s ninth full length book and is an excellent piece of writing. I have just finished reading a novel worthy of such a Booker nomination – Embassytown by China Miéville. ![]() This is, in my opinion, pretentious hogwash! There is a whispered notion that sci-fi can never be ‘literary’ enough. Embassytown by China Mieville (Macmillan)įor some reason, science fiction novels are never considered for prizes such as the Booker. ![]()
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