AwardsNebula Awards Best Novel (nominee)
John W Campbell Memorial Award Best Novel (nominee)
Aliens arrive on Earth hoping to trade some of their advanced knowledge for insights into Earth's linguistic structure. "The Embedding" is the story of three experiments in linguistics driven by a searching analysis of the nature of communication.
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Science Fiction
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"Enthralling ... It gave one the sense of being led very near to the brink of profundity, even revelation." -
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April 1975 : USA Hardback
Title: The Embedding
Author(s): Ian Watson
ISBN: 0-684-14205-8 / 978-0-684-14205-0 (USA edition)
Publisher: Scribner
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Title: The Embedding ([Gollancz SF])
Author(s): Ian Watson
ISBN: 0-575-01687-6 / 978-0-575-01687-3 (UK edition)
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Title: The Embedding (GOLLANCZ S.F.)
Author(s): Ian Watson
ISBN: 1-4732-2267-2 / 978-1-4732-2267-0 (UK edition)
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Title: The Embedding (GOLLANCZ S.F.)
Author(s): Ian Watson
ISBN: 0-575-07133-8 / 978-0-575-07133-9 (UK edition)
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Title: The Embedding (Gollancz S.F.)
Author(s): Ian Watson
ISBN: 0-575-04784-4 / 978-0-575-04784-6 (UK edition)
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Title: The Embedding
Author(s): Ian Watson
ISBN: 0-88184-554-X / 978-0-88184-554-9 (USA edition)
Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub
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Title: The Embedding (A Panther book)
Author(s): Ian Watson
ISBN: 0-586-05190-2 / 978-0-586-05190-0 (UK edition)
Publisher: HarperCollins Distribution Services
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Title: The Embedding
Author(s): Ian Watson
ISBN: 0-553-02311-X / 978-0-553-02311-4 (USA edition)
Publisher: Bantam Books, Inc.
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Title: The Embedding
Author(s): Ian Watson
ISBN: 0-7043-1218-2 / 978-0-7043-1218-0 (UK edition)
Publisher: Quartet Books
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Title: The Embedding
Author(s): Ian Watson
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Title: The Embedding (S.F. MASTERWORKS Book 166)
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