Dante Readline stopped reading Chaga by Ian McDonald
book sucked, amazing concept and setting and god awful hacky main characters. plucky journalist and heroic masculine doctor, get the fuck outta here
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Dante Readline reviewed Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany
During an interstellar war one side develops a language, Babel-17, that can be used as …
delany is a human thesaurus for the word 'horny'
5 stars
amazing style for scifi from 66, the babel / sapir-whorf thing is less interesting than the insane amount of biomoded space-sailor furry fighting and fucking he manages to shoehorn in.
he's running laps around stuff from the same time period, most shit then was like 'we got shrunk down to the size of atoms and theres little racist depictions of tribal people trying to kill us with spears' while delany is like 'i can't pilot this hyperdimensional spaceship anymore becuase im sad about the cyberghost of my girlfriend's girlfriend (who had surgery to get giant muscles to win contests in zero-g wrestling matches)'
Dante Readline rated Babel-17: 5 stars
Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany
During an interstellar war one side develops a language, Babel-17, that can be used as a weapon. Learning it turns …