Book description
Scientists attempt to decode what may be a message from intelligent beings in outer space.
By pure chance, scientists detect a signal from space that may be communication from rational beings. How can people of Earth understand this message, knowing nothing about the senders-even whether or not they exist? Written…
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1 author picked His Master's Voice as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This book could have been first on this list, perhaps it should have been, but then it might not have been a list—because Lem, with the particular patience of a man who had clearly lost all faith in the genre he was writing in, and possibly in the human species as a whole, decided to write a novel that doesn’t so much engage with the first contact premise as slowly, methodically, and with what I can only describe as contempt, dismantle every single assumption the premise rests on, including the assumption that we would be able to recognise an extraterrestrial…
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