Babel-17/Empire Star: Nebula Award Winner

Rydra Wong, a poet and code expert, is asked to break a code used by an enemy government, but discovers that the code is really a supersophisticated language, in a new edition of the classic Nebula Award-winning novel, which is accompanied by the short novel Empire Star, in which a simple-minded teenager is entrusted to carry a vital message to a distant world. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.