Babel 17

I always like when there is a new direction taken by a genre. Most of the time when people think scifi they think laser guns, space ships, and super soldier. They'd be right in guessing that this book has that sort of thing because it does have the intergalactic space sips that have these epic wars in space BUT the most important aspect of the book is about cunning and an interesting language that holds the key to victory. It gets very dull after a while with the kick in the door style games and books out there but I always love when there is a big of a mix up. In this book the main character stumbles across a frequency that was actually a special language that, if understood, could lend the speaker the knowledge/power to understand and wind the war that was before her. I also loved how the main character was a girl. Though in Shards of Honor the main character was a woman I realized the gender difference in this book a lot more, its hard to place a finger on why.