Babel-17
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Publishing Details
Babel-17
By (Author) Samuel R. Delany
Orion Publishing Co
Gollancz
1st May 2010
29th March 2010
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Fiction
813.54
Winner of Nebula Award 1967 (UK)
Physical Properties
Paperback
208
Width 131mm, Height 197mm, Spine 17mm
184g
Description
In the far future, after human civilisation has spread through the galaxy, communications begin to arrive in an apparently alien language.
They appear to threaten invasion, but in order to counter the threat, the messages must first be understood.Reviews
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 McAuley.
Author Bio
Born in 1942 in Harlem, New York, Samuel R Delany has become one of SF's most influential and discussed authors. Since 1988 he has also been Professor of Comparative Literature at Massachusetts University. He has won the Nebula Award.
