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What was green and came in small glasses at more respectable establishments, here was served in mugs.

Cover of Babel-17.

Babel-17

by Samuel R. Delany · published 1966 · last read 2023-07-30

★★★★★

It's been a long time (apart from Too Like The Lightning) that I've read a novel that felt so tailored to me like Babel-17. I mean, it's a queer polyamorous scifi novel where linguistics are key, even to winning space battles, which the