r3lativo@bookwyrm.social reviewed Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany (The Gregg Press science fiction series)
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4 stars
Babel-17 is an interesting novel that knows how connect the seemingly distant worlds of linguistics, logic and programming languages - with an appreciated dose of space invaders, spies and fights.
This piece of fiction won the Nebula prize in the 1967, in a tie with Keyes' "Flowers for Algernon"
I could deeply appreciate its concepts as I'm currently also learning about these same topics, and the book also made me think of "Arrival" and others Ted Chieng's stories - yet the universe created by Delany is sometimes hard to picture, probably because of the extent use of peculiar words which globally hindered my experience as a non native reader.
