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S'està carregant… Embassytown (2011)de China Miéville
  
Books Read in 2020 (195) Top Five Books of 2017 (121) » 22 més Top Five Books of 2013 (788) Books Read in 2013 (122) Strange Cities (12) Space Colonization (25) ALA The Reading List (65) Best Fantasy Novels (693) No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. I just can't get comfortable with Mieville's writing because I am so often unsure of what he's saying. He has a wonderful gift for seeing complex societies, that's for sure, but I can't hold it all well enough to enjoy it. (  )1   nhlsecord | Feb 2, 2021 |  A total masterpiece. It takes a little while to wrap your head around what Miéville is structuring here, but he's a perfect guide throughout - always telling you just enough to keep you going, but never pulling back entirely to give you everything. This is a thing that a lot of science fiction novelists struggle with, and it's probably why this is my favorite science fiction novel in a long, long time. (  ) skolastic | Feb 2, 2021 | One of the most thought provoking books since Anathem. ( ) frfeni | Jan 31, 2021 | Darmok and Jelad at Tenagra, only in book form. Basically. This was a hard book to read and understand. I'm pretty good with SF books centered on physics or biology, but this one is about linguistics, and that's something I know nothing about. The style is also kind of extra and there are so many new things to learn early on, I really wished for a glossary. But it gets five stars because it was a TRIP and I enjoyed the heck out of it. ( ) jennelikejennay | Dec 31, 2020 | A fantastic story in a fantastic universe with fantastic things. Miéville again has proven that he can come up with some absolutely fantastic universe with fantastic things and an amazing story. Highly recommended (  ) gullevek | Dec 15, 2020 |
 Readers who want to delve no further than turning the pages will come away satisfied with "Embassytown," because Mieville's fertile imagination has created a fascinating alien species to go along with plenty of familiar human drama. It is a miracle of a novel, one where Big Ideas cohabitate with Monsters, and neither is lessened by what academic propriety insists must be capital letters.  Miéville has a muscular intellect, successfully building a science fictional world around semiotics. For some readers, that will be enough. I don’t hold this will to abstraction against him. Genre writers, and for that matter writers of the well-wrought middlebrow novel, mostly tell the usual stories in the usual way: narrative and character are advanced through conventional action. Miéville is up to something else. In this sense, Embassytown plays out as a novel of metropolitan-colonial conflict, holding out the hope that language might not serve only as a tool of oppression, but be reclaimed as the instrument that makes resistance possible. Té una guia de referència/complement
Avice Benner Cho, a human colonist on a distant planet populated by the Ariekei, sentient beings famed for their unique language, returns to Embassytown after many years of deep space exploration to find she has become a living simile in the Ariekei language even though she cannot speak it, and she is torn by competing loyalties when hostilities erupt between humans and aliens. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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