Search results
The Ballad of Beta-2 is a 1965 science fiction novel by American writer Samuel R. Delany. The book was originally published as Ace Double, together with Alpha Yes, Terra No! by Emil Petaja.
Feb 22, 2023 · The Ballad of Beta-2 is a mysterious tale about generational starships taken over by superstition, paranoia, and misinformation, eventually descending into horrific acts of genocide.
Aug 11, 2010 · The ballad of Beta-2 : Delany, Samuel R : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive. by. Delany, Samuel R. Publication date. 1965. Topics. Science fiction, American. Publisher. New York : Ace Books. Collection. internetarchivebooks; printdisabled; inlibrary. Contributor. Internet Archive. Language. English. Item Size. 200897918.
The Ballad of Beta-2 (1965) is more comfortably in the genre than Nova or Babel-17, but it, too, would really rather be something else—an invented myth or a future bardic epic. Here is the science fiction premise: in the far future, an anthropology student researching the meaning of an ancient ballad, originated on an early interstellar ...
The Ballad of Beta 2. Samuel R. Delany. Gregg Press, 1977 - Interstellar travel - 124 pages. From inside the book . Other editions - View all. The Ballad of Beta-2
Nov 29, 2015 · “The Ballad of Beta 2” is not a novel, actually, but a fairly short novella. Delany wrote it before he broke out of the pack with award winners such as “Babel 17,” and “The Einstein Intersection.”
Centuries ago, the Star Folk had left Earth on twelve spaceships on a generations-long mission to colonize the distant stars. Ten of the ships had reached thier destination. Two had failed – and nobody, in the hundreds of years since the disaster, had the slightest inkling of what had happened.
