Babel-17 ; Empire Star
New York : Vintage Books, 2001.
Format: Book
Edition: First Vintage books edition.
Description: 219, 92 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
In Babel-17, Rydra Wong, a poet and code expert, must break an enemy government's code, but discovers that the code is really a supersophisticated language, while in Empire Star, a simple-minded teenager is entrusted to carry a vital message to a distant world.
Contents:
Babel-17 -- Empire star.
Subjects:
Language and languages -- Fiction.
Women linguists -- Fiction.
Women poets -- Fiction.
Life on other planets -- Fiction.
Upside-down books -- Specimens.
Language and languages -- Fiction.
Women linguists -- Fiction.
Women poets -- Fiction.
Life on other planets -- Fiction.
Upside-down books -- Specimens.
ISBN:
9780375706691
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
SF Delany | Main (Downtown) | Display - Second Level, Science Fiction | Out (Due: 5/18/2024) |
No collective title page; titles transcribed from individual title pages; works bound back-to-back with inverted pagination.
"Babel-17 copyright ©1966, copyright renewed 1994 by Samuel R. Delany"--Title page verso.
Nebula Award for Best Novel, 1966.
"Babel-17 copyright ©1966, copyright renewed 1994 by Samuel R. Delany"--Title page verso.
Nebula Award for Best Novel, 1966.