A review by thebeardrew
Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany

3.0

I enjoy reading classic sci-fi every now an then because it is interesting to see how different it was back then. Classic sci-fi is just weird, and that's both good and bad. The ideas in this book are interesting. The language provides superpower-like understanding of the world and really messes with the person using it. But also the way the author expressed the feeling of this language and it's effect on events was very loosely defined, and that made events hard to follow.