Babel-17 - Softcover

Delany, Samuel R.

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Synopsis

Author of the bestselling Dhalgren and winner of four Nebulas and one Hugo, Samuel R. Delany is one of the most acclaimed writers of speculative fiction.

Babel-17, winner of the Nebula Award for best novel of the year, is a fascinating tale of a famous poet bent on deciphering a secret language that is the key to the enemyâ s deadly force, a task that requires she travel with a splendidly improbable crew to the site of the next attack. For the first time, Babel-17 is published as the author intended with the short novel Empire Star, the tale of Comet Jo, a simple-minded teen thrust into a complex galaxy when heâ s entrusted to carry a vital message to a distant world. Spellbinding and smart, both novels are testimony to Delanyâ s vast and singular talent.

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“The most interesting writer of science fiction writing in English today.”–The New York Times Book Review

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SALES POINTS * #6 in the Millennium SF Masterworks series, a library of the finest science fiction ever written * Winner of the Nebula Award as best sf novel of the year * 'The first of a remarkable series of vital and stunning masterpieces, a dazzlingly realised star-spanning epic populated with truly mysterious aliens and humans entirely believable yet gorgeously strange. After this, the future was never the same again' -- Paul J. McAuley

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