Put together like the old Ace double-headers you get both the novel and the novella (mentioned in the novel!). Self-reference is everywhere and Delaney is a remarkably complex writer. I'm still not sure exactly what it was all about but it reminded me of Dick without all the psychotic baggage. It...
It's too bad Delaney's original vision for these books to be published together wasn't realized until this edition, because they complement each other beautifully, like an intertextual binary star. Babel-17 is very deservedly acclaimed for all the things it does with linguistics and poetry, but Emp...
An extremely creative book that has stuck with me despite the fact that I was not smart enough to understand most of it.
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