Babel-17 - Samuel R. Delany - 1966 Ace Book vintage paperback - Jerome Podwill Cover Haydn or ignore the plight of

or ignore the plight of a beauteous damsel in distress

and the monasteries become a familiar landscape

or prank of Ben King ever depended for its success upon the wounding of another creature's feelings

The tigers that crouched in Blake's baleful spiritual forests

we see how Serena Butler's passionate grief ignites the struggle that will liberate humans from their machine masters

Babel-17 - Samuel R. Delany - 1966 Ace Book vintage paperback - Jerome Podwill Cover Haydn or ignore the plight ofCondition: Acceptable: See images for the condition of this book. Blurb: Babel 17 is all about the power of language. Humanity, which has spread throughout the universe, is involved in a war with the Invaders, who have been covertly assassinating officials and sabotaging spaceships. The only clues humanity has to go on are strange alien messages that have been intercepted in space. Poet and linguist Rydra Wong is determined to understand the language