Babel-17
$23.07
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
1 May 2010
Summary
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.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780575094208 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0575094206 |
| Author: | Samuel R. Delany |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Gollancz |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 1 May 2010 |
| Weight: | 185g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 20mm |
| Series: | S.F. Masterworks |
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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.
About The Author
Samuel R. Delany
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.
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