Format:
Ebook, Electronic Resources, Book
Title:
Embassytown [electronic resource] / China Miéville.
Author:
Miéville, China.
Call Number:
eBook
Web Site:
Web Link Available online.
Edition:
1st U.S. ed.
Publisher, Date:
New York : Ballantine Books, c2011.
Description:
1 online resource
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.
Subjects:
Human-alien encounters -- Fiction.
Life on other planets -- Fiction.
Space warfare -- Fiction.
Loyalty -- Fiction.
Genre:
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
ISBN:
9780345524515 (ebk.)
0345524519 (ebk.)
* 9780345524492 (hbk. : acid-free paper)
* 0345524497 (hbk. : acid-free paper)
9780345524515 (electronic bk.)
0345524519 (electronic bk.)