Premium & Rewards Members 25% Off Pre-Order Books With Code PREORDER25 Ends 6/26 Shop Now Online only. See page for details.Premium & Rewards Members 25% Off Pre-Order Books With Code PREORDER25 Ends 6/26 Shop Now Online only. See page for details.

Babel-17

eBook
$7.99
Membership Card Icon
Collect stamps to save with Rewards. 10 stamps = $5. Learn More
Select a store to view item availability.

Available on compatible , the free NOOK App, and in My Digital Library

NOOK App

Download NOOK app

NOOK Devices

NOOK eReaders

  • NOOK GlowLight 4 Plus
  • NOOK GlowLight 4e
  • NOOK GlowLight 4
  • NOOK GlowLight Plus 7.8"
  • NOOK GlowLight 3
  • NOOK GlowLight Plus 6"

NOOK Tablets

  • NOOK 8.7" Reading Tablet
  • NOOK 9" Lenovo Tablet
  • NOOK 10" HD Lenovo Tablet
  • NOOK Tablet 7" & 10.1"
  • NOOK by Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 [Tab A and Tab 4]
  • NOOK by Samsung [Tab 4 10.1, S2 & E]

Free NOOK Reading Apps

  • NOOK for iOS
  • NOOK for Android

BN.com website

Go to your Digital Library in My Account

Limit 1 per customer
The Nebula Award Winner: "By looking at a typical space opera adventure from a different angle, Delany . . . give[s] us a weird, welcoming book" (Tor.com).

At twenty-six, Rydra Wong is the most popular poet in the five settled galaxies. Almost telepathically perceptive, she has written poems that capture the mood of mankind after two decades of savage war. Since the invasion, Earth has endured famine, plague, and cannibalism—but its greatest catastrophe will be Babel-17.



Sabotage threate...

From the B&N Reads Blog

Samuel Delany, Science Fiction and Cultural Pioneer, Turns 75

Samuel Delany, Science Fiction and Cultural Pioneer, Turns 75

Samuel R. Delany turned 75 on April 1. “Chip” to his friends (what I wouldn’t give to be part of that group!), Delany is one of the Science Fiction Writers of America Grandmasters. He has won four Nebula Awards and two Hugos (with 15 other nominations between the two awards). But he is much more than just […]
Read More

An Astounding Work of Science Fiction History

Campbell began his career as a physicist, and wrote science fiction himself. Though he produced one classic work in Who Goes There?, the novella that formed the basis for the various film versions of The Thing, he gave up writing fairly early to take over as publisher of Astounding Magazine, then a struggling pulp. Over […]
Read More