This is a fairly short novel (around 60,000 words, I believe) and took me around two weeks to finish, reading 1-3 chapters per day. It's pretty easy to read, except for the parts that are deliberately designed to be confusing. I'm not sure I fully grasped exactly which events were caused by Babel-17 and which weren't.

While I do like that the reader is largely dropped into the world with minimal explanation, I do wish there had been a bit more focus on things like the Transport culture and the discorporate people. The novel introduces a bunch of interesting things, but it's too short to really explore anything other than Babel-17 in depth.

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