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Babel-17

Babel-17
Samuel R. Delany

Babel-17 is a 1966 science fiction novel by American writer Samuel R. Delany in which the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis plays an important part. It was joint winner of the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1967 and was also nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1967.Delany hoped to have Babel-17 originally published as a single volume with the novella Empire Star, but this did not happen until a 2001 reprint.

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“I saw a bunch of the weirdest, oddest people I have ever met in my life, who thought different, and acted different, and even made love different. And they made me laugh, and get angry, and be happy, and be sad, and excited, and even fall in love a little…. And they didn’t seem to be so weird or strange anymore.”

Samuel R. Delany book Babel-17

Part 5, Chapter 1
Babel-17 (1966)

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“Imagination should be used for something other than pondering murder, don’t you think?”

Samuel R. Delany book Babel-17

Part 2, Chapter 4
Babel-17 (1966)

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