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Book Giveaway: Babel-17 by Grand Master Samuel R. Delany
After posting about this weekend’s Damon Knight Grand Master Award ceremony yesterday we talked to the fine folks at Open Road. We decided what better way to celebrate the occasion than by hosting a giveaway? Up for grabs are 5 digital copies of Delany’s seminal work Babel-17 and all you have to do for your chance to win is re-tweet the tweet below or leave a comment here in the blog. Do both and double your chances!
The contest will run until next Friday the 23rd and is open world-wide to US and Canadian residents only. Next Friday we’ll put all the names into a hat and randomly draw 5 winners. Easy peasy.
RT & win Samuel R. Delaney’s Babel-17 (ebook): http://t.co/eauYInoFdR Comment on post to double enter @OpenRoadMedia pic.twitter.com/xNTZJbtXXt
— Worlds Without End (@WWEnd) May 16, 2014
In a war-riven world, why will saving humanity require… a poet?
At twenty-six, Rydra Wong is the most popular poet in the five settled galaxies. Almost telepathically perceptive, she has written poems that capture the mood of mankind after two decades of savage war. Since the invasion, Earth has endured famine, plague, and cannibalism—but its greatest catastrophe will be Babel-17.
Sabotage threatens to undermine the war effort, and the military calls in Rydra. Random attacks lay waste to warships, weapons factories, and munitions dumps, and all are tied together by strings of sound, broadcast over the radio before and after each accident. In that gibberish Rydra recognizes a coherent message, with all of the beauty, persuasive power, and order that only language possesses. To save humanity, she will master this strange tongue. But the more she learns, the more she is tempted to join the other side . . .
This ebook features an illustrated biography of Samuel R. Delany including rare images from his early career.
Babel-17, winner of the Nebula Award for best novel of the year, is a fascinating tale of a famous poet bent on deciphering a secret language that is the key to the enemy’s deadly force, a task that requires she travel with a splendidly improbable crew to the site of the next attack. For the first time, Babel-17 is published as the author intended with the short novel Empire Star, the tale of Comet Jo, a simple-minded teen thrust into a complex galaxy when he’s entrusted to carry a vital message to a distant world. Spellbinding and smart, both novels are testimony to Delany’s vast and singular talent.
Our thanks to Open Road for the great contest! Check out their list of Delany titles and many other authors on their site. Good luck to everyone and please help us spread the word about the contest. Don’t forget to check back here next Friday to see if you’ve won!
