I'm not always a fan of Adam Roberts' fiction or reviews, but he often makes very interesting points. This analysis of China Mieiville's Embassytown helps explain to me why I liked it despite its ridiculous excesses and why Christopher Priest's diatribe felt both right on about the larger situation and unfair to the book at the same time:
Roberts on the Clarkes.
The part about how it seems like a novel about science fiction novels rings true.
However, as Scalzi said, to paraphrase, if Embassytown is Mieiville slacking, we should all slack so well...
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