Babel-17

This month's selection is Babel-17 (1966) by Samuel Delaney.

Plot summary from Amazon: Babel-17, winner of the Nebula Award for best novel of the year, is a fascinating tale of a famous poet bent on deciphering a secret language that is the key to the enemy’s deadly force, a task that requires she travel with a splendidly improbable crew to the site of the next attack.