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Author:

Miéville, China.

Title:

Embassytown / China Miéville.

Edition:

Del Rey books trade pbk. ed.

Publisher:

Del Rey Books,

Copyright Date:

2012

Description:

345 pages ; 21 cm

Subject:

Human-alien encounters--Fiction.
Life on other planets--Fiction.
Space warfare--Fiction.
Loyalty--Fiction.
Rencontres avec les extraterrestres--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Vie extraterrestre--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Guerre spatiale--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Loyauté--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Human-alien encounters.
Life on other planets.
Loyalty.
Space warfare.
Human-alien encounters--Fiction.
Space warfare--Fiction.
Life on other planets--Fiction.
Loyalty--Fiction.
Science fiction, English.
Fiction.
Science fiction.
Science fiction.
Science fiction, English.

Notes:

1st U.S. ed. originally published as hbk.: Ballantine Books, ©2011.

Summary:

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.

ISBN:

0345524500
9780345524508

OCLC:

(OCoLC)724650018

Locations:

VXPE964 -- Decorah Public Library (Decorah) — Copies: 5