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Posted 2014-10-14 7:57 PM (#8755 - in reply to #8754)
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I just finished Babel-17 a couple of weeks ago. I am utterly blown away by the fact that Delany wrote it when he was only 23.

You know how you often read 40-50 year old science fiction novels and they seem really dated, they have that whole sense of "Golden Age of SF" classic-but-clunky-and-outdated? Babel-17 doesn't. It is so well-written, I'd never have guessed that it was published nearly 50 years ago.

It is easy to understand all the accolades the book got and continues to get.

 


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