Monday, April 25, 2011

Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany

Babel-17 was a really great science fiction story, and one by the science fiction legends. The premise of this book is fantastic can't really go wrong with interstellar war. with the classic Alliance and the Invaders as the opposing force. Babel-17 is the Invader's new big bad weapon. Which really plays off of the Babel story in the bible, where the weapon is a language but acts like a computer virus that makes you think they way it wants you to think causing mayhem and sabotage. Rydra Wong with her unrealistic power of language osmosis, was a bit strange. But I went with it for the sake of the book.

Overall really fun read, and felt like a real classic science fiction story with some reinforced play on religious ideals.


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