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“Embassytown is centred around the idea of alien languages. It’s another example of the more incomprehensible alien species—it’s set on a planet where the native aliens speak two words at the same time. This is somewhat fantastical, and it gets tied up with the limits of this alien language. They can’t say anything untrue, for example, because their language is not a symbol. It adds all these layers of meaning that are hard for me, as a human, to wrap my head around. A lot of the plot of the book hinges on the way that the aliens experience language, and experience the world as a result.” Read more...
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Jaime Green, Science Writer
“Miéville has got a brilliant imagination … If people haven’t read Embassytown and they want to read something about linguistics, it’s fascinating.” Read more...
David Adger, Linguist
