China Miéville’s latest novel, Embassytown, is a fascinating mix of the cerebral and the visceral, a “weird” science fiction novel that features paired ambassadors communicating with aliens on a distant planet. When a new, strange ambassador pair arrives from a more central world, communication between the groups begins to break down, with disastrous and transformative results for humans and aliens alike. It’s an ambitious, heady mix for readers, rewarded with praise in The Guardian from Ursula K. LeGuin and, this past weekend, in the New York Times Book Review. The novel builds on the success of previous books written in a variety of related genres, and, to this reader at least, reflects a continuing quest to break down the barricades between so-called “literary” and “genre” fiction. As ever, his fiction is a potent delivery system for sometimes difficult ideas.
I interviewed Miéville via email at the end of his U.S. book tour for Embassytown, focusing not just on the novel but on his recent tour.
The rest of the interview can be found here....
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