![]() ![]() ![]() Each word is related directly to a demonstrable thing or action. Words, for the Hosts, are signs of things that have happened or are happening or do exist. The language of the Hosts is unique among known languages in several directions: one of the most significant is that it always has referents. Embassytown is unrestrainedly magnificent.Īvice Benner Cho was born and raised in Embassytown, the tiny human outpost on the world of the alien Ariekei (whom the inhabitants of Embassytown simply call their Hosts). I have been unable to finish The Scar and Kraken, let alone Iron Council or Un Lun Dun.īut I keep picking his new work up, because there has always been something in each of his books to catch me, before I couldn't take it anymore and The City and the City came so very, very close to being a book I could respect.Īnd now, with his first SF novel, I have got more than I expected, more than I was hoping for, and more than I remotely considered possible. Perdido Street Station, while it has its good points, suffers on an external level from gratuitous pessimism and, on a level more specific to me personally, from containing more insects than I can really handle in a single novel. I have never expected China Miéville to write a novel I could find completely satisfying. ![]()
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