num_pages: 218
description: London experimenters condition a group of completely segregated orphans with an artificially implanted language, an Amazon Indian tribe employs hallucinatory powers against an American-Brazilian dam project, and the extraterrestrial Sp'thra seek to maintain their endangered communications systems
language: English
title: The Embedding
titlecomplete: The Embedding
characters: Dorothy Summers, Raymond Roussel, Chris Sole
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Linguistics, Collections, Language, Science Fiction Fantasy, Classics, Novels, Fantasy
ratings_count: 720
awards: awardedAt: 157795200000
name: Nebula Award
category: Novel, awardedAt: 126259200000
name: John W. Campbell Memorial Award
category: Best Science Fiction Novel, awardedAt: 157795200000
name: Prix Tour-Apollo Award
category: Prix Apollo
publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub