Babel-17 - Samuel R. Delany - 1966 Ace Book vintage paperback - Jerome Podwill Cover Haydn or prank of Ben King

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

What happened during seven hot August days summarizes the growing tension between European immigrants and Anglo-Americans in the United States

The tigers that crouched in Blake's baleful spiritual forests

It should touch on all matters of real importance in the founding and the building of our country

Babel-17 - Samuel R. Delany - 1966 Ace Book vintage paperback - Jerome Podwill Cover Haydn or prank of Ben KingCondition: 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