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Author of the bestselling Dhalgren and winner of four Nebulas and one Hugo, Samuel R. Delany is one of the most acclaimed writers of speculative fiction. Babel-17 , winner of the Nebula Award for best novel of the year, is a fascinating tale of a famous poet bent on deciphering a secret... read more
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BABEL-17: It's a port city. / EMPIRE STAR: He had: a waist-length braid of blonde hair; a body that was brown and slim and looked like a cat's, they said, when he curled up, half asleep, in the flicker of the Field Keeper's fire at New Cycle; an ocarina; a pair of black boots and a pair of black gloves with which he could climb walls and across ceilings; gray eyes too large for his small, feral face; brass claws on his left hand with which he had killed, to date, three wild kepards that had crept through a break in the power fence during his watch at New Cycle (and in a fight once with Billy James - a friendly scuffle where a blow had suddenly come too fast and too hard and turned it into for real - he had killed the other boy; but that had been two years ago when he had been sixteen, and he didn't like to think about it); eighteen years of rough life in the caves of the satellite Rhys attending the underground fields while Rhys cycloided about the red giant Tau Ceti; a propensity...
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Authors & Contributors
- Samuel R. Delany (Author)
Awards
- Nebula (1966: Best science fiction or fantasy novel)
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