Allie
3/4/2017
Babel-17 is a fairly short classic space opera set in an imaginatively strange universe. I liked the focus on communication and language, and how it led to some unusual scenes and conversations. Some of the linguistic ideas were a little too unbelievable to me, though I still enjoyed the story overall. The poet heroine Rydra Wong is a little excessively skilled, but I appreciated that she was not without flaws. I'm glad I finally managed to read Babel-17, and I expect it will stand as my favorite of Delany's novels for quite some time.
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