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Babel-17

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Babel-17
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Samuel R. Delany
SeriesS.F. Masterworks
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:208
Dimensions(mm): Height 197,Width 131
Category/GenreScience fiction
ISBN/Barcode 9780575094208
ClassificationsDewey:813.54 813.54
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Orion Publishing Co
Imprint Gateway
Publication Date 29 March 2010
Publication Country United Kingdom

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.

Author Biography

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.

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.