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Embassytown
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Embassytown is a 2011 novel by China Miéville. Superficially a sort of New Weird twist on the 19th-century colonial tale of discovery, the novel is actually an extended exercise in Fun with Foreign Languages.Designated Hero, narrator, and pioneer Avice Benner Cho was born in the colony of Embassytown, on the planet Arieka, located at the very edges of the known universe. There, humans live alongside profoundly weird aliens called the Ariekei (or "Hosts"), who are noteworthy for their baffling language known as Language. By some unspecified mechanism, Language can only be understood by the Ariekei if it is spoken by two speakers who share one mind. As such, only genetically-engineered identical twins known as Ambassadors can communicate directly with the aliens.After leaving home to become an interdimensional explorer, Avice reluctantly returns to Embassytown with her linguist husband, who wishes to study Language. During their stay, the status quo is thrown into disarray by an arrival from the colony's parent nation, threatening to destroy both the human and alien communities.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); }) | |
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Aliens Speaking English | |
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Aliens Speaking English: Discussed with regard to the various exots (aliens), some of who are very good at speaking English, even uncannily so, adopting Terre accents when delivering otherwise alien anecdotes. Subverted with the native Ariekei or Hosts, who are incapable of even recognizing any language other than Language to be intelligent communications. However, the trope is abruptly fulfilled during the climax when the Ariekei become capable of abstraction. | |
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Hyperspace Is a Scary Place | |
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Reality in Embassytown is divided into the Manchmal (corresponding to conventional reality) and the Immer (the scary sort of hyperspace). As an "immerser," Avice is one of the few humans with sufficient talent at sideways thinking to face the Immer and not Go Mad from the Revelation. | |
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The Ageless | |
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The Ageless: The Shur'asi, another alien species, are biologically immortal. They cannot die from old age or illness, but can still be killed by violence or by accident. | |
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Alien Geometries: Reality in Embassytown is divided into the Manchmal (corresponding to conventional reality) and the Immer (the scary sort of hyperspace). As an "immerser," Avice is one of the few humans with sufficient talent at sideways thinking to face the Immer and not Go Mad from the Revelation. As a subset of how bizarrely weird the Immer is, it is stated that the Manchmal is the third iteration of the current universe, the previous two having been destroyed. The Manchmal sits upon the Immer like a boat would float on the water. | |
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Accidental Discovery / int_c49d7337 | |
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Bizarre Alien Psychology / int_c49d7337 | |
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Bizarre Alien Reproduction / int_c49d7337 | |
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Chemical Messiah / int_c49d7337 | |
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English Literature / int_c49d7337 | |
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Free-Love Future / int_c49d7337 | |
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Language of Truth / int_c49d7337 | |
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Most Writers Are Human / int_c49d7337 | |
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Name That Unfolds Like Lotus Blossom / int_c49d7337 | |
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Organic Technology / int_c49d7337 | |
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Universal Universe Time / int_c49d7337 |
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