After escaping the predicted attack, Rydra and her crew are captured by a nearby planet. During their mission, Rydra realizes there is a traitor aboard the ship. Rydra realizes it is a language in and of itself.
Initially Babel-17 is thought to be a code used by enemy agents. As her understanding of the language increases, she is able to predict where the next attack will be and gathers a team to go to the predicted location of the attack. After several attacks have been made by the invaders who speak Babel-17, she soon realizes the potential of the language to change one's thought process and provide speakers with certain powers, and she is recruited by her government to discover how the enemy is infiltrating and sabotaging strategic sites. Chinese starship captain, linguist, poet, and telepath Rydra Wong begins to learn the language. Plot summary īabel-17 is a language that can be used as a weapon utilized by enemy invaders during an interstellar war. ĭelany hoped to have Babel-17 originally published as a single volume with the novella Empire Star, but this did not happen until a 2001 reprint.
It was joint winner of the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1967 (with Flowers for Algernon) and was also nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1967. Delany in which the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis (that language influences thought and perception) plays an important part. OL56834W Page_number_confidence 89.18 Pages 344 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.19 Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20200307204531 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 286 Scandate 20200304132932 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog marygrove Scribe3_search_id 31927000637691 Tts_version 3.Babel-17 is a 1966 science fiction novel by American writer Samuel R. Empire star Boxid IA1789711 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Col_number COL-609 Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 16:01:39 Associated-names Delany, Samuel R.
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