158 - Babel-17

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This week we read Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delaney, a sci-fi about a polyglot poet and a rag-tag crew of star-shipmen who are tasked with translating an unknown language to fight an unknown enemy known as Invaders.

Content Warnings: brief discussion of how the book handles suicide.

Spoiler Warning: We do spoil the ending, but there is warning in the episode.

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