Babel-17 ; : Empire Star

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Call Number: Adult Book / Fiction / Science Fiction / Classic / Delany, Samuel R, Science Fiction / Delany, Samuel
On Shelf At: Westgate Branch

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No collective t.p.; titles transcribed from individual title pages; works bound back-to-back with inverted pagination.
Babel-17 -- Empire star.
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: Empire star.

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Rating Babel-17 submitted by Susan4Pax -prev. sueij- on June 16, 2021, 8:53pm First published in 1978, parts of this story hold up in 2020 and parts do not. I detest Delaney’s description of the main character as autistic. What he is describing is not autism. If, however, that one label was removed and everything else was left in place about the book, I would have loved it and given it a full 5 stars. The characters are fantastic. The mystery is wonderful. The arc of the story is excellent, and the resolution, while I did piece together parts of it, was beautifully mastered and written, and a pleasure to read.