From the Bookshelf of Never too Late to Read Classics

Babel-17
by
Start date
September 1, 2024
Finish date
September 30, 2024
Discussion
Science Fiction and Fantasy

Find A Copy At

Group Discussions About This Book

* 2025 Sci-Fi and Fantasy Reading Schedule
By Book Nerd , Purple Book Horse · 14 posts · 146 views
last updated Jan 05, 2025 07:59PM
2025 September - The Inverted World by Christopher Priest
By Book Nerd , Purple Book Horse · 9 posts · 9 views
last updated 8 hours, 21 min ago
showing 6 of 6 topics    view all »
Other topics mentioning this book
Science Fiction Classics List
By Pat the Book … · 33 posts · 112 views
last updated Sep 12, 2019 09:31AM
Hugo, Nebula and Voyager Award Winners
By Pat the Book … · 8 posts · 44 views
last updated Aug 02, 2018 12:29PM
This topic has been closed to new comments. * 2022: 700,000 Page Challenge
By Lesle , Appalachain Bibliophile · 1853 posts · 824 views
last updated Jan 03, 2023 09:27AM
2023: With Great Challenges comes Great Responsibilities!
By Pat the Book … · 48 posts · 193 views
last updated Dec 09, 2023 04:52PM
This topic has been closed to new comments. 2024: 800,000 Page Challenge COMPLETED!!
By Lesle , Appalachain Bibliophile · 1353 posts · 970 views
last updated Mar 21, 2025 04:18AM
Name a Classic that contains the word Harvest or Moon in the title
By Lesle , Appalachain Bibliophile · 3559 posts · 375 views
last updated 5 hours, 48 min ago

What Members Thought

GONZA
Again Wikipedia helped me a little bit to understand some details I had missed, but overall I can say that I enjoyed the book, especially the digressions on language. Not the usual science fiction novel anyway, though as time goes on and more and more science fiction books are read, I find it increasingly difficult to identify a muster to clarify this genre.

Anche stavolta Wikipedia mi ha un po' aiutato a capire qualche dettaglio che mi era persa, ma nel complesso posso dire di aver apprezzato i
...more
Douglas Beagley
Feb 18, 2014 rated it really liked it
Some damn good writing in here.

Not a perfect book.
Zuzana
Apr 12, 2014 rated it really liked it
Original sci-fi story.
Christian
May 15, 2011 marked it as sci-fi
Megan the Vegan
Apr 22, 2012 marked it as to-read
Tim
Mar 30, 2013 marked it as to-read
Shelves: sf-masterworks
Rob
Feb 02, 2014 rated it really liked it
Shelves: sci-fi
Brenda H
Nov 29, 2015 rated it liked it
Petre
Aug 17, 2017 marked it as to-read
Carrie
Dec 11, 2018 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Mary
Dec 21, 2019 marked it as to-read
Alexandra Madigan
Jul 18, 2020 marked it as to-read
Andrey
Jan 17, 2021 rated it liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: sci-fi
Navi
May 03, 2022 marked it as to-read
Thomas
Nov 30, 2022 marked it as to-read
Karigan
Jan 27, 2024 marked it as to-read
Robert Prather
Jul 11, 2024 marked it as to-read
Stefanie
Aug 25, 2024 marked it as to-read
Elena
Nov 25, 2024 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition