Timeline for Sci-Fi book about female pilot in the distant future who is a linguist and has to decipher an alien language/code
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| Feb 1, 2023 at 14:49 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Jan 23, 2021 at 4:04 | comment | added | David Siegel | It is worth noting thet the test actually incloudes several poems (or fragments) by Rydra Wong,,which are, I understand, actually by Marilyn Hacker, a noted poet who was married to Delany at that time. | |
| Jan 20, 2021 at 20:20 | comment | added | DavidW | @RossPresser I think closer to Babel-17 than BLIT is Snowcrash where the nam-shub of Enki is a mental virus that prevents Asherah (another mental virus) from taking people over. | |
| Jan 20, 2021 at 19:40 | comment | added | Ross Presser | @DavidTonhofer It is somewhat related, I guess, but instead of being inspired by Goedel's Incompleteness Theorems, it derives from the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, i.e. that the use of language profoundly affects what you can think about. The story accepts the hypothesis as valid, and as the captain learns to think in Babel-17, her behavior is affected, to the point that she does some things without remembering them. (Ugh, I've just spoiled an important plot twist. Well, at least it's a book that's a year older than I am.) | |
| Jan 20, 2021 at 15:01 | comment | added | Organic Marble | I flipped through the book a bit (haven't read it in decades) and the body-modification theme is definitely present. +1 | |
| Jan 20, 2021 at 6:43 | comment | added | David Tonhofer | Is Babel-17 an early variation on the Berryman Logical Image Technique | |
| Jan 20, 2021 at 4:12 | history | answered | DavidW | CC BY-SA 4.0 |