Fanboys and girls of the superlative contemporary fantasy writer China Miéville’s got anticipation amplified as he has finally released an exciting new novel that again tests the genre-bending waters. Pegged as an experimental foray into science fiction, Miéville launches us into universal orbit with Embassytown, a place in the far future that becomes a precipice for beauty, mystery and terror.
Narrated by sprightly ‘Immerser’ Avice Benner Cho, a human gifted with the capability of travelling through the sub-realities of the universe without severe physiological and psychological peril, she provides a bizarre and engaging head trip for the uninitiated, with insights in her seemingly normal but extraordinary life, and of the surroundings and inhabitants of Embassytown and beyond.
