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050 4 _aPS
100 1 _aTeichner, Albert
245 1 4 _aThe right side of the tracks
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2023
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aProduced from Amazing Stories May 1963.
500 _aRelease date is 2023-12-05
508 _aGreg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
520 _a"The Right Side of the Tracks" by Albert Teichner is a science fiction story written in the early 1960s. The narrative focuses on an expedition to the planet Nodar, where a group of interstellar explorers encounters a civilization that has isolated itself from the rest of the galaxy. As the crew investigates, they grapple with the implications of this isolation and the strange behaviors exhibited by the Nodarians, who seem to possess a distinct and advanced form of consciousness. The central theme of the work revolves around communication, social structures, and the potential evolution of human consciousness. In the story, the crew of the spaceship "Probe", led by Commander Linder and Chief Semanticist Dr. Stern, lands on Nodar, which has been signaling irregularly and exhibiting odd behaviors. Upon arrival, they are greeted by a Nodarian named Jackson, whose peculiar manners hint at deeper societal issues. As tensions rise, the crew experiences a humiliating encounter when the Nodarians disrespectfully spank them, which serves as a display of the cultural divide. Through the unfolding interactions, Dr. Stern theorizes that the Nodarians have developed a unique way of consciousness that allows them to perceive and process information far beyond typical human capabilities. The narrative explores themes of misunderstanding between cultures and the evolution of consciousness, culminating in the notion that the Nodarians may represent the next step in human evolution, possessing the ability to process multiple streams of information simultaneously. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cNew York, NY: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, 1963
653 _aScience fiction
653 _aShort stories
653 _aLife on other planets -- Fiction
700 1 _aSchelling, George,
_d1938-
830 0 _aProduced from Amazing Stories May 1963.
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/72338
999 _c113063
_d113063