- The Ballad of Beta-2
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name = The Ballad of Beta-2
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image_caption = Cover of first edition paperback
author =Samuel R. Delany
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country =United States
language = English
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genre =Science Fiction
publisher =Ace Books
release_date = 1965
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media_type = Print (Hardcover &Paperback )
pages = 96 pp
isbn = NA
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followed_by ="The Ballad of Beta-2" is a
1965 science fiction novel bySamuel R. Delany about the history of an ill-fated multi-generational interstellar expedition of discovery. By the time the spaceship has arrived at the destination star system, the descendants are incapable and uninterested in settling the system's planets, and continue to live in the spaceship as an obscure backwater culture isolated from broader human history.The book was originally published as an
Ace Double with "Alpha Yes, Terra No!" byEmil Petaja . The first stand alone edition was published in 1966.A quote from the ballad written for the book.
"She walked through the gates and the children cried, She walked through the Market and the voices died, She walked past the court house and the judge so still, She walked to the bottom of Death's Head hill..."
References
*cite book | last=Tuck | first=Donald H. | authorlink=Donald H. Tuck | title=The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy | location=Chicago | publisher=Advent | pages=136| date=1974|id=ISBN 0-911682-20-1
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