Viel ist es, das der Autor preisgegeben hat: "Science fiction, aliens and spaceships, but I don't want to give too much away!" Und so wissen wir: Dieser Titel ist mehr Sci-Fi als die Vorgängertitel.

Informationen zum Autor China Miéville is a three-time winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award, twice winner of the British Fantasy Award, and a winner of the Hugo, World Fantasy and BSFA Awards. Klappentext Winner of the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, China Miéville's astonishing Embassytown is an intelligent and immersive exploration of language in an alien world. Embassytown: a city of contradictions on the outskirts of the universe. Avice is an immerser, a traveller on the immer, the sea of space and time below the everyday, now returned to her birth planet. Here on Arieka, humans are not the only intelligent life, and Avice has a rare bond with the natives, the enigmatic Hosts - who cannot lie. Only a tiny cadre of unique human Ambassadors can speak Language, and connect the two communities. But an unimaginable new arrival has come to Embassytown. And when this Ambassador speaks, everything changes. Catastrophe looms. Avice knows the only hope is for her to speak directly to the alien Hosts. And that is impossible. An enthralling novel from the award-winning author of Kraken and The City & The City Zusammenfassung An enthralling novel from the award-winning author of Kraken and The City & The City

Vorwort
An enthralling novel from the award-winning author of Kraken and The City & The City

Klappentext

Winner of the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, China Miéville's astonishing Embassytown is an intelligent and immersive exploration of language in an alien world.

Embassytown: a city of contradictions on the outskirts of the universe.

Avice is an immerser, a traveller on the immer, the sea of space and time below the everyday, now returned to her birth planet. Here on Arieka, humans are not the only intelligent life, and Avice has a rare bond with the natives, the enigmatic Hosts - who cannot lie.

Only a tiny cadre of unique human Ambassadors can speak Language, and connect the two communities. But an unimaginable new arrival has come to Embassytown. And when this Ambassador speaks, everything changes.

Catastrophe looms. Avice knows the only hope is for her to speak directly to the alien Hosts.

And that is impossible.

Zusammenfassung
An enthralling novel from the award-winning author of Kraken and The City & The City