Embassytown by China Mieville. Great world-building and thought provoking. Humanity has created an embassy on a planet of giant mantis-like aliens who have a un

Embassytown by China Mieville. Great world-building and thought provoking. Humanity has created an embassy on a planet of giant mantis-like aliens who have a unique perspective on language. Their language is tied to their thoughts in a way where they cannot think anything that cannot be directly expressed in Language, and are unable to lie. There is no barrier between thought and word. To the point where they will orchestrate events deliberately to add to their own vocabulary of thought. Crazy.