Embassytown World Fantasy Award Nominee for Best Novel (1979) violent change

violent change

the burst of perspiration

shrouded in darkness

kenkyo (the appearance of modesty)

This is the age of addiction

Embassytown World Fantasy Award Nominee for Best Novel (1979) violent changeIn the far future, humans have colonized a distant planet, home to the enigmatic Ariekei, sentient beings famed for a language unique in the universe, one that only a few altered human ambassadors can speak. Avice Benner Cho, a human colonist, has returned to Embassytown after years of deep space adventure. She cannot speak the Ariekei tongue, but she is an indelible part of it, having long ago been made a figure of speech, a living simile in their