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Babel-17
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fantasy
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- Steven Fouch
- 13-06-21
interesting ideas, beautifully written.
Yes, it's the novel that brought the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis into the awareness of science fiction fans, paving way for thousands of stories about language altering our perceptions. As such it is a direct ancestor of such modern classics as Arrival.
Yes, it won loads of awards, and is widely seen as a genre classic. Yes, it has a wonderfully exotic (if sparsely described) setting.
But it hasn't aged all that well, and the linguistics in it are not that accurate or based on now largely discredited theories. And there are many things that date it badly. Punch cards program computers, recordings are made on tape reels. It feels very 1960s.
And it's a bit clumsy at times. A minor character with a role that should have put him regularly across the path of space travellers knows nothing about them, merely acting as an audience proxy for several exposition dumps and some wild world building.
But it's fun, crazy and it's central premise is engaging.
Enjoyable, but not brilliant.
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- veradosamamadosa
- 13-02-22
Good but missing context in some parts
Reads like French ,in that it's a bit like having to understand masculine and feminine before getting the gist as the author is vague on context at times it's a clever and interesting take on sci-fi but has way to much dialogue that adds nothing to the plot and I found myself repeatedly having to listen to certain chapters as they miss out on context that dialog fails to correct
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- TangerineTomCat
- 30-01-22
It's hard going
I picked this up because it was free, but sadly I just could not get into it. I listened all the way to the end and still could not really tell you what happened in the story.
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- "oboejoebo"
- 01-01-22
Very entertaining with a great concept
I loved the exploration of language, and hope language shapes the thoughts of its speakers
I loved every single character (even the ones I hated)
I loved the world building, which was neat and evocative
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- Anonymous User
- 02-12-21
Difficult to Hear
No problems with the story but the narrator is very difficult to understand. Listen to the full sample before purchasing.
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- marlon smith
- 04-10-21
If you like Star Trek...
This is classic sci-if, born out of Saturday matinees, but with a twist. Here we have a female protagonists, and a mystery. It’s psychological. It’s sexy. It’s well populated, well crafted, and rips along at a fair pace.
Oh, and it’s free! This is well worth a listen, and Stefan Rudnicki’s performance makes for comfortable listening.
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- Oli
- 27-04-20
Very Interesting & Full of Action
Fascinating ideas around language amd a great sci fi romp... Found it a bit jumbled and chaotic however
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- Lachlan
- 26-06-17
Many good but half-baked ideas
I struggled with this one. There is so much potential here, and you can tell the author is extremely keen to weave together a good story, but it falls short in its development of ideas and machanisms.
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- carl
- 25-05-16
Not my cup of tea but interesting concept
Like what I said in the title, just interesting enough for me not too return it, but it barely kept my attention
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- Sophia Tavarez
- 29-05-18
Looove it the story but...
The story is amazing and unlike nothing I've ever heard. My only complaint is that the narrator's voice is so deep that it's sometimes hard to understand. Sometimes it sounds like a low rumble or growl. I did find myself having to go back every now and again, but overall Mr. Rudnicki did well.
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- Anonymous User
- 19-05-21
Incomprehensible
The story is great, but as a different reviewer noted, the narration is difficult. The narrator clearly enjoys the depth of his voice and there's nothing wrong with that at all, except where it obscures meaning and clarity. Which it often does.
My main beef with this is the utter incomprehensibility of the language explanations in the story. I have a PhD from Cambridge in Linguistics but some of the writing herein is far and away too complicated for even an advanced linguist. I managed, with a great deal of concentration, to pick up and follow most of what was not obscured by the narrator but if you are looking for an easy listen, this is not it.
However it won some award or other is beyond me.
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- Joe Kraus
- 12-03-17
Great Concept, Not Quite the Narrative Tech
What do you think the narrator could have done better?
He has a beautiful voice, but his register is so low that it's sometimes hard to hear.
Any additional comments?
Reading this book is a little like going back and playing one of those early home video games, something like the first generation of Castle Wolfenstein. There’s something to it, something you know you sensed when you played the game way back when, but you can also clearly see how the technology limited the final effect.
This one has a fabulous premise: the “bad guys” develop a language that corrupts its speakers. It functions less like a human language and more like Fortran or Basic – languages that direct a machine to do a thing without giving it the vocabulary to comprehend itself. Without that sense of self – without the concept of “I” – it isn’t possible to resist the codes one’s programmed to do. In the world of the novel, it turns its speakers into sleeper double-agents, people who aren’t aware of their own duplicity.
I can give that kind of a summary largely because of what I learn in the final pages of the novel, when one of the characters – having been reprogrammed of deprogrammed – explains the phenomenon to everyone else. Otherwise, this is a hard-to-follow story. We get a lot of quick cuts, a lot of characters introduced by pronouns rather than given names, and a lot of action committed by characters under the control of other wills.
Much of the story moves forward through dialogue, often a clunky narrative technology but especially so here. How, I ask, can we contemplate the power of language when we are so trapped in conversation. There are “technologies” that might work better – stream-of-consciousness, multiple narrators, deliberate fragmentation – but Delaney tends to stay with a conventional approach here. He does push against it a little – we get some attempts at weird-angle limited omniscient third person and he opens each chapter with long, allusive quotes from Marilyn Hacker’s poetry – but, ultimately, he doesn’t seem to have the tools to get his fabulous question across.
I don’t think he’s alone. I’m cooler on his contemporary Philip K. Dick than most, and there was a lot of other high concept, overly pedantic sci-fi in those era. It was common for sci-fi to come across as cold, peopled with characters who seem props for ideas rather than characters in their own right. In some ways, the original Star Trek had the same problems: big ideas without quite the special effects to pull them off. It took Star Wars (on screen) and Dune (in print) to begin to develop that technology, and now we have Guardians of the Galaxy (on screen) and Neal Stephenson (in print, when he’s on his game).
There’s certainly something here, and I also acknowledge I read this too quickly to get everything from it. I suspect I’d have been in awe of it if I stumbled onto it as a 13-year-old in 1978. I don’t mean to say I’d have gotten all the bio-linguistic points it raised, merely that I think I’d have sense it even then as pushing toward something it couldn’t quite yet say.
I have the chance to hear Delaney a few weeks from now, and I’m keeping an open mind. I’m blaming him here for a limited technology, but it’s just as possible I’m not bringing all the reading tools to this that I should.
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- joey
- 04-06-17
Defected recording
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
Good book, would recommend to read but, not to listen. There recording is defected and narrator's voice is layered and unintelligible about half way throuh.
What about Stefan Rudnicki’s performance did you like?
Very good performance. The editors of this need to fix the defect in the recording.
Any additional comments?
Don't order this, as the defect makes the entire listening experience frustrating.
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- Reader X
- 23-12-20
Recommended for first time Delany readers
If you're widely read in SF, this is probably your best introduction to Delany. It's one of the most conventional novels that he has written. It has a plot! Wow. And a bunch of SF troupes. Stick with it.
I've read most of Delaney. It's always a little off. The books got better once I learned something about the author's life and epoch.
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- Joyce Lively
- 17-07-21
Really awful
Can’t believe this won a Nebula award or whatever. It painful to listen to. The story and performance. I tried so hard to listen but couldn’t get through the 5th chapter. It gave me a headache trying to follow this story. It also made no sense whatever and was so bad I lost all interest in even trying to follow this
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- Britta
- 12-03-19
Babel 17
Reader's voice is very deep, which sometimes made the words difficult to understand, especially when driving. Story line felt like it jumped around a bit and was difficult to follow.
Story intrigued me enough to listen to the end of the story.
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- J.S.
- 27-12-18
Important book, terrible narration
This audio book ensures that I will never again listen to a novel with characters as an audio file unless the narrators are proven to be exceptional. The narrator delivered the lines of the central brilliant woman protagonist in a simpering whimper offensive to the politics of both book and its feminist queer author. Shame on the makers of audio books for continuing to deliver predominantly male titles with predominantly clueless, boring male narrators. Back to the drawing board.
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- Suspect
- 13-12-21
If Babel is British Slang for Car Crash
This book is aptly named indeed.
Apparently, it won a Nebula award in the 1960’s. Well. LSD, Jim Morrison, and psychobabble were also hip in the 60’s.
Had I spent money or a credit for this reservoir of fatuous, self-aggrandizing babble I’d be requesting a refund from Audible right now.
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- Tom
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A bit dated
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