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    <body><![CDATA[An extremely creative book that has stuck with me despite the fact that I was not smart enough to understand most of it.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a good book that could have been great. I thought the author did his best writing at the very beginning of the novel and I had high hopes for it, I really enjoyed and savored the first part of the book. The story was pretty well thought out, but a better ending could have made this a great ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38757342">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am going to lift my head above the seemingly endless wall of praise and adoration for this book, and let it be known to all that I can't stand this novel.  I give up.  I have not finished the book and I am unsure if I will.<br/><br/>This is all about personal opinions on different types and styl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70565585">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A pair of early works from Delany... both full of amazing ideas and tight, economical prose.  I like both of them, and I made the right decision in reading both this time, as they inform one another.  I do feel that the stories are both a bit... glib?  I think I prefer his later stuff, but these are...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65887791">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If I could give this 0 stars, I would have.  And to think I suggested this to our book club.  I was embarrassed.  I never was into sci-fi and thought this would be a great first entry because it was about language.  Oh, it was so bad!  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my favorite Sci-fi books.  Interesting concepts all around.  It deals with linguistics and the way they form our thoughts inside of a neat little space opera.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[When the criminal &amp; the artist mind come together--to paraphrase. Amazing concept, yay. Twisty turny plots, language games, &amp; fun fun fun. As Tyler says, Delaney writes some of the *classiest* SF out there.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I should point out that the 4-star rating applies only to Babel-17. Empire Star was a huge letdown, and I didn't even make it through. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[novel concepts--so-so execution. However, since this is squarely 60's genre lit I'm willing to give Mr. Delany a pass on the writing.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my favorite authors ever, and this is one of my favorite books. It's about sociolinguistics on spaceships.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[one of the most unique SF books I've read]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the classics of the 1960's...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Delany, on the other hand, avoids all of Vogt’s pratfalls through sublime craftsmanship and a thorough understanding of human relationships, and these two oddly-interrelated novels (Empire Star is a work of fiction within the universe of Babel-17, and was written by a former lover of the novel’s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2435809">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[ok, i haven't actually met a delaney book that i don't love, but Babel 17 in particular is a good starter sci-fi book of his.  It is shorter and more accesible than most of his novels but with some of the same complicated themes and approaches to thinking about other times and places.  He bends your...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2726707">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[delany's fifth published SF book, written during the time period with which he concludes his memoir.  also develops a format of parallel columns, containing varied degrees of attention: bare description and action, contrasted to nuanced detail, intention, motive, purpose, and consequence.<br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14309416">more...</a>]]></body>
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