Embassytown World Fantasy Award Nominee for Best Novel (1979) This is the age of

This is the age of addiction

Starting with a discussion of the island's aesthetic traditions and how Balinese art should be viewed and understood

But the thrill of traveling to 40 nations and preaching 500 sermons a year came with the threat of being a distant husband and an absent father

violent change

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Embassytown World Fantasy Award Nominee for Best Novel (1979) This is the age ofIn the far future, humans have colonized a distant planet, home to the enigmatic Ariekei, sentient beings famed for a language unique in the universe, one that only a few altered human ambassadors can speak. Avice Benner Cho, a human colonist, has returned to Embassytown after years of deep space adventure. She cannot speak the Ariekei tongue, but she is an indelible part of it, having long ago been made a figure of speech, a living simile in their