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Rimasto orfano a Canton e portato in Inghilterra da un misterioso tutore, Robin Swift credeva che Babel fosse un paradiso. Fino a che non è diventata una prigione... Può uno studente lottare contro un impero?

Babel-17, winner of the Nebula Award for best novel of the year, is a fascinating tale of a famous poet bent on deciphering a secret language that is the key to the enemy's deadly force, a task that requires she travel with a splendidly improbable crew to the site of the next attack.

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1828. Un jeune orphelin chinois est recueilli à Canton par un professeur et conduit à Londres. Rebaptisé Robin Swift, le jeune garçon consacre ses journées à l'étude des langues dans l'optique d'intégrer le prestigieux Institut royal de traduction de l'Université d'Oxford, plus connu sous le nom de Babel. Berceau de l'argentogravure, les étudiants y exploitent le sens perdu des mots à l'aide de barres d'argent enchantées.

1828. El Instituto Real de Traducción de Oxford, también conocido como Babel, es la institución mágica más importante del mundo. La magia con plata capaz de revelar significados ocultos perdidos en la traducción que allí se practica le ha otorgado al Imperio británico un poder sin parangón. Robin, un huérfano cantonés que ha terminado siendo alumno en Babel, se ha dado cuenta de que servir a Babel significa traicionar a su país de origen.

Auf zehn steinernen Tafeln kündigt der "Kult des goldenen Kalbs" in verschlüsselten Botschaften seine geplanten Aktionen an und eröffnet damit für Auguste Dupin, Edgar Allan Poe und Irene Adler ein Wettrennen gegen die Zeit.

A visionary retelling of the story of the Tower of Babel...More than a century after the worldwide flood, Noah, now the forefather of the living world, works peacefully in his vineyard until tragedy tears apart his relationship with his son, Ham. Years later, dark prophetic dreams inextricably link him with a young man carrying scars from a painful past, and a young woman who longs for acceptance yet harbor secrets darker than either of them imagine.

Jouant avec les codes du suspense, de la manipulation et du roman d'anticipation, Michel Bussi ne vous aura jamais autant fait voyager. La méthode, calme et systématique, du tueur terrifia les trois enquêteurs. Qui était cet assassin progressant à visage découvert ? Déjà, leurs tabletas se connectaient aux bases de données planétaires de reconnaissance faciale. Plus personne ne pouvait rester anonyme dans le monde actuel. Dans quelques secondes, ils connaîtraient l'identité de ce monstre. La suite du film fut plus sidérante encore.

Launch day. That was what they called it. The day when over four million people vanished in an instant from the island of Manhattan. The day earthquakes ravaged the east coast. The day a 101-kilometer tall tower rose from the wreckage of the now empty city. The day every screen, newspaper, and smart phone displayed a single message from an unknown source: The Great Emperor has issued his challenge.

Inspired by the novels of D.H. Lawrence, particularly The Rainbow and Women in Love, this ambitious quartet from Booker Prize-winning novelist A.S. Byatt charts the lives of the Potter family between 1953 and 1970. Set against the changing social and political landscape of England in the '50s and '60s, it follows the heroine, Frederica, from precocious teenager to TV talk-show host and from her Yorkshire home to the heart of swinging London.

1828. Robin Swift, den ein Cholera-Ausbruch im chinesischen Kanton als Waisenjungen zurücklässt, wird von dem geheimnisvollen Professor Lovell nach London gebracht. Dort lernt er jahrelang Latein, Altgriechisch und Chinesisch, um sich auf den Tag vorzubereiten, an dem er in das Königliche Institut für Übersetzung der Universität Oxford - auch bekannt als Babel - aufgenommen werden soll. Oxford ist das Zentrum allen Wissens und Fortschritts in der Welt. Für Robin erfüllt sich ein Traum, an dem Ort zu studieren, der die ganze Macht des britischen Empire verkörpert.

From the very first hour Cayden had set foot inside the massive, real-life game that was the Tower of Babel, nothing had gone according to plan. A unique skill, a handful of new friends, and the wrath of an ultra-wealthy, patricidal lunatic were just some of the complications to his best laid plans.
So why was he even surprised when a special event trapped him, his companions, and dozens of other players inside the tower, squaring them off against a murderous army of stone-faced warriors?

تعد بابل عملاً خياليًّا تأمليًّا، ومن ثم، تقع أحداثها في نسخة خيالية من مدينة أوكسفورد في ثلاثينيات القرن التاسع عشر التي تغير تاريخها تمامًا بسبب العمل بالفضة (سنسوق المزيد خلال وقت قصير). مع ذلك، حاولت الالتزام، قدر المُستطاع، بدقة السجل التاريخي في وصف حياة أوكسفورد في العصر الفيكتوري، وبالاكتفاء بتقديم قدر من المغالطات فقط حين يخدم ذلك الرواية. وفيما يتعلق بالمراجع الخاصة بأوكسفورد في بدايات القرن التاسع عشر، اعتمدت على الدليل والمرجع التاريخي لمدينة أوكسفورد (1878) الذي كتبه جيمس جيه مور،...

The descendants of Nimrod return—not with bricks and mortar, but with quantum engineering, mysticism, and the unrelenting drive of human ambition. Their mission: to reconstruct the legendary Tower of Babel on the Ashar Plateau, not just to unify humanity, but to tap into the very architecture of the cosmos itself. Led by the Warkans—a coalition of scientists, mystics, and visionaries—the project begins with grand hopes. But as the Tower rises, so too does unrest. Ideological rifts fracture their unity. Strange anomalies ripple across time and space.

The Podcast Lab è un laboratorio di narrazione audio nato da Coming Soon!, uno spazio ospitato da Babel Festival di Letteratura e Traduzione dedicato a scrittrici e scrittori ticinesi emergenti sviluppato in collaborazione con l’Associazione REC e Radio Gwen, con il supporto di InfoGiovani, Pro Helvetia e FSRC/SRKS.Le autrici e gli autori coinvolti lavorano a partire dal tema del festival alla realizzazione di un podcast eterogeneo e personale sotto la guida di Olmo Cerri.

Tous les récits écrits par Babel sont construits à partir d'événements vécus ou de personnages réels. "Les Contes d'Odessa" décrivent un milieu très particulier : celui des bas-fonds du grand port de la mer noire où les Juifs formaient près d'un tiers de la population. Gangsters, charretiers, intermédiaires malhonnêtes du ghetto de la Moldavanka y sont évoqués avec truculence, humour et tendresse.

Language is no longer learned, but streamed to neural implants regulated by lang-laws. Those who can't afford language streaming services are feral, living on the fringes of society. Big tech corporations control language, the world’s most valuable commodity. But when a massive cyberattack causes a global language outage, catastrophe looms.

Desde el Santiago de Chile de inicios de los setenta, un joven estudiante de ingeniería, azuzado por su memorable profesor de Fundamentos Matemáticos, va tras la huella de Kurt Gödel, el genial lógico que con dos teoremas perturbadores desbaratará toda la tradición matemática, y que...

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The Earth is no more. Escaping the premature nova of Sol, humanity's last survivors flee their doomed home using an experimental drive that takes them to the far side of the galaxy. With 10,000 survivors, dwindling resources, and rapidly diminishing hope, the fleet is on the verge of breaking point. Gaia, their new home, offers one last chance of survival for the human race. But when Major Tom Merrick and Captain Juliana Curran lead the expedition to explore this new frontier, they learn that Gaia is a world fraught with peril and deadly secrets.