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After reading "Story of Your Life" by Ted Chiang and "Embassytown" by China Mieville, I've decided that sci-fi plots centered on some deeply exotic mind-bending language are only going to irritate me. At the end of the day, language is just a tool. It's not magic. Mieville arrives at that conclusion eventually, but he leads you up the garden path first, not very convincingly.