Embassytown
Avice Benner Cho, a human colonist, has returned to Embassytown after years of deep-space adventure. When distant political machinations deliver a new ambassador to Arieka, the fragile equilibrium between humans and aliens is violently upset. Catastrophe looms, and Avice is torn between competing...
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Avice Benner Cho, a human colonist, has returned to Embassytown after years of deep-space adventure. When distant political machinations deliver a new ambassador to Arieka, the fragile equilibrium between humans and aliens is violently upset. Catastrophe looms, and Avice is torn between competing loyalties--to a husband she no longer loves, to a system she no longer trusts, and to her place in a language she cannot speak yet speaks through her.
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Edition language: English
Read by Tiffany: Mildly interesting concept - aliens who cannot say anything that is untrue, which constrains their thinking. They must make some things happen in order to speak of them - so for instance they split a boulder and re-cement it, to refer to 'the rock that was split and made whole again...
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