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Home products tagged babel 17 audiobook babel 17 audiobook. The first edition of the novel was published in may 1966, and was written by samuel r. Delany, 1967, ace edition, in english babel 17 1967 edition open library. Delany, 1967, ace edition, in english babel 17 1967 edition open. Librivox founded in 2005 is a community of volunteers from all over the world who record public domain texts. Babel17 is a standalone science fiction book from the 60s, although im not sure i would have guessed it was from the 60s if id read it without knowing that. Delany achieves this by making linguistics a key part of his plotan unusual move for any novelist, highbrow or lowbrow, but very.
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