She is somewhat of a minor celebrity amongst the humans of Embassytown, a girl who escaped their forgotten backwater and explored the cosmos. Avice left her home city of Embassytown long ago for a life of travelling the universe but events have brought her home. Set on a planet on the edge of the known universe, we follow Avice Banner Cho, an immerser, a traveller on the sea of the space, the Immer. Until now that is and the release of his new novel Embassytown. Clarke awards aside), he hasn’t written about ray guns, spaceships and civilizations on far-flung planets. He has never been a true hard science fiction writer, (the three Arthur C. They range from the vast, sprawling, fantasy driven Bas-Lag trilogy, to existential crime thriller The City and The City, and just about everything in between. His bizarre, intelligent novels have never fitted into easy categories. China Mieville has always been a difficult author to pigeonhole.
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