Babel-17
Item
Title
Babel-17
Creator
Samuel R. Delany
Date
1966
Subject
Space warfare > Space warfare / Fiction.
Imperialism > Imperialism / Fiction.
Interstellar travel > Interstellar travel / Fiction.
Imperialism > Imperialism / Fiction.
Interstellar travel > Interstellar travel / Fiction.
Description
Humanity, which has spread throughout the universe, is involved in a war with the Invaders, who have been covertly assassinating officials and sabotaging spaceships. The only clues humanity has to go on are strange alien messages that have been intercepted in space. Poet and linguist Rydra Wong is determined to understand the language and stop the alien threat.
Publisher
Ace Books
Relation
SciFi Corpus
Rights
Language
English
