Babel-17, winner from the Nebula Award for best novel of the entire year, is a remarkable tale of a popular poet bent on deciphering a secret language that is the important to the enemy’s dangerous force, a task that requires she travel using a splendidly improbable crew to the site of the next attack.

“Probably the most interesting author of science fiction writing in English today.”-New York Occasions Book Review, praise for the writer