We begin to see the fallout of the death of Ra and the cleaving of EzRa as the Embassytowners start to run out of datchips of the god-drug's voice. Ariekei begin to become violent in their addiction, ...

This entry in our SciFi book club goes through the end of Part 6 of the book Embassytown by China Mieville. Spoilers abound. Continue reading at your own risk. I feel sorry for the buildings. The ...

One of the challenges of thought-provoking, envelope-pushing science fiction or fantasy writing is that of using language to describe concepts so alien as to be outside the bailiwick of the words at ...

"You taught me language," says Caliban in The Tempest, "and my profit on't/ Is, I know how to curse." As Caliban knows to his disadvantage, language is a species of exchange, a transaction in which ...

Read “Embassytown” twice. China Miéville’s new science-fiction novel is a rich concoction of multiple strangenesses, and it bears repeated savoring. Like the aliens on whose revolution “Embassytown” ...

China Mieville’s career got off to a spectacular start with “Perdido Street Station,” but by the third novel set on that world, some of the steam had gone out of his steampunk engine. Mieville, though ...

Embassytown is a breakneck tale of suspense about weird philosophy and a deeply alien culture. It’s disturbing and beautiful by turns. And yes – China Miéville’s new novel is one of his best. Spoilers ...

I doubt if the ‘monsters under your bed’ trick ever came handy to put China Miéville to sleep. Any reader of his more than half a dozen novels will be familiar with Mieville’s predilection for fiends ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. It's not for nothing British Sci-Fi writer China Miéville has cleaned up at awards ceremonies in recent ...

Some authors fill a novel with futuristic scenery and jargon and then strenuously, even stertorously, deny that it's science fiction. No, no, they don't write that nasty stuff, never touch it. They ...