Embassytown
From the Mother Tongue Liberation & Defiance collection.
Nominated by Technologist and Designer Jenna Fizel |
"Deeply considers the relationships between language, consciousness and power. Also there are cool aliens." |
A thought experiment in alien semiotics and the limits of language, meaning, and power. Far in the future on a distant colony, humans navigate relations with the Ariekei, beings whose unique Language can only be spoken by specially trained “ambassadors,” as a returning colonist becomes central to a crisis of meaning and power.
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