Babel-17 ; Empire star / Samuel R. Delany.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Delany, Samuel R.

Contributor:

Mark B. Adams Science Fiction Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages--Fiction.

Language and languages.

Women linguists--Fiction.

Women linguists.

Women poets--Fiction.

Women poets.

Life on other planets--Fiction.

Life on other planets.

Upside-down books--Specimens.

Upside-down books.

Genre:

Fiction.

Specimens.

Science fiction.

Novels.

Penn Provenance:

Adams, Mark B. (donor) (Adams Collection copy)

Physical Description:

219, 92 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Edition:

First Vintage Books edition.

Other Title:

Babel-17 ; Empire star

Babel-seventeen

Place of Publication:

New York : Vintage Books, 2001.

Summary:

In "Babel-17," Rydra Wong, a poet and code expert, must break an enemy government's code, but discovers that the code is really a supersophisticated language, while in "Empire Star," a simple-minded teenager is entrusted to carry a vital message to a distant world.

Contents:

Babel-17

Empire star.

Notes:

No collective t.p.; titles transcribed from individual title pages; works bound back-to-back with inverted pagination.

First Vintage Books edition, December 2001.

Local Notes:

Adams Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Dr. Mark B. Adams.

Cited in:

Internet Speculative Fiction Database, 253884

Contains:

Delany, Samuel R.. Empire star.

Empire star.

Other Format:

Online version: Delany, Samuel R. Babel-17.

ISBN:

0375706690

9780375706691

OCLC:

46640814

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