![]() They cannot die from old age or illness, but can still be killed by violence or by accident. ![]() ![]() The Ageless: The Shur'asi, another alien species, are biologically immortal.During their stay, the status quo is thrown into disarray by an arrival from the colony's parent nation, threatening to destroy both the human and alien communities. ![]() As such, only genetically-engineered identical twins known as Ambassadors can communicate directly with the aliens.Īfter leaving home to become an interdimensional explorer, Avice reluctantly returns to Embassytown with her linguist husband, who wishes to study Language. By some unspecified mechanism, Language can only be understood by the Ariekei if it is spoken by two speakers who share one mind. There, humans live alongside profoundly weird aliens called the Ariekei (or "Hosts"), who are noteworthy for their baffling language known as Language. ![]() Superficially a sort of New Weird twist on the 19th-century colonial tale of discovery, the novel is actually an extended exercise in Fun with Foreign Languages.ĭesignated Hero, narrator, and pioneer Avice Benner Cho was born in the colony of Embassytown, on the planet Arieka, located at the very edges of the known universe. Embassytown is a 2011 novel by China Miéville. ![]()
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