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Embassytown: a city of contradictions on the outskirts of the universe. Avice is an immerser, a traveller on the immer, the sea of space and time below the everyday, now returned to her birth planet. Here on Arieka, humans are not the only intelligent life, and Avice has a rare bond with the natives, the enigmatic Hosts - who cannot lie. Only a tiny cadre of unique human Ambass...

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这可咋整 2015-01-12 13:43:16

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"Embassytown" 是英国奇幻作家China Miéville唯一的科幻小说。但以“weird”著称的Miéville，写起科幻来也走的并非寻常路线。若以一句话来概括 Embassytown 的情节，恐怕我们得到的只是：在某个偏远的殖民地星球上，人类与本地种族之间爆发的战争。类似这种情节在科幻... (展开)

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Jacinthe 2018-05-01 14:35:33 Del Rey2011版

Embassytown：在明喻和隐喻之间

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"We tell the truth best by becoming lies … I don't want to be a simile anymore, I want to be a metaphor." - Avice 几个月前有朋友提起他正在读China Mieville的Embassytown，一本写得非常美的科幻小说，主要的设定是这里的居民使用的语言使他们不能撒谎。并非科幻迷的... (展开)

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若鱼爱吃鱼 2017-04-13 22:19:59 Del Rey2011版

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Embassytown is a science fiction novel by British author China Miéville. It was published in the UK by Pan Macmillan on 6 May 2011, and in the US by Del Rey Books on 17 May 2011. China Miéville published his PhD thesis on Marxism and international law as ... (展开)

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