Embassytown

I picked this up because I was really excited to read a science fiction novel about linguistics, which is a topic that I think is fascinating and which is fairly underserved in the genre. This wasn't exactly that - it was more a look at the process of colonization, the impact that it has on the cultures of both the colonized and the colonizers, and the way that the colonizers exist in this in-between status where they gain cultural privilege over those that they colonize, while being relatively unprivileged and othered by their home culture. It gave me a lot to think about those topics, while still being entertaining as a story.