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Babel-17

By: Samuel R. Delany
Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
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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 enemy's deadly force, a task that requires she travel with a splendidly improbable crew to the site of the next attack.

©2015 Samuel R. Delaney (P)2015 Blackstone Audio, Inc., and Skyboat Media, Inc. Adventure Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction Space Opera Fiction
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Glad I picked up this (audio) book. In hindsight, would have preferred it and followed it more easily in paper form, but still enjoyed it. Enough even that I might look for a paper/ebook version.
The weird linguistic portions of the story reminded me a bit of that movie "Arrival", which I also enjoyed.

Quirky, memorable story.

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Not always an easy listen but very enjoyable plot and reading - it reminded me of The Dosadi Experiment, with its ideas about better ways to think.

Stimulating!

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I read this many years ago and am very glad to revisit it. It's well read and chock full of interesting ideas. I forgive the plot holes and blind spots in the world building because the story is fascinating and thought provoking.

well worth listening

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