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Locus Award · 2012 · Winner
Award History
| Award | Year | Status | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel | 2012 | Winner | “China Miéville's alien language novel won for its conceptual originality, its daring exploration of how language shapes consciousness, and its unsettling portrait of colonial dependency.” |
About This Book
On a distant alien world, the human colony of Embassytown is thrown into crisis when a new Ambassador arrives whose speech has an unprecedented and catastrophic effect on the alien Language—in this novel about language, colonialism, and consciousness.
About the Author
China Miéville is a British author, academic, and political activist, widely regarded as one of the most important speculative fiction writers of his generation. He won the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel for Embassytown (2012) and the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel twice (for The City & the City in 2010 and Kraken in 2011). He has also won the Arthur C. Read more →
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