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100 1 _aMacLean, Katherine,
_d1925-2019
245 1 0 _aPictures Don't Lie
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2016
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aProduced from Galaxy Science Fiction August 1951
500 _aRelease date is 2016-02-12
508 _aProduced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
520 _a"Pictures Don't Lie" by Katherine MacLean is a science fiction novella that was likely written in the early 1950s. The story explores the themes of communication and understanding between humans and extraterrestrial beings. It centers around a young decoder, Joseph R. Nathen, who discovers that static noise from stars may be signs of intelligent life, leading to the first contact with aliens. The narrative follows Nathen as he decodes signals from space, eventually establishing a form of communication with a spaceship and encountering the alien beings. As he prepares for their landing on Earth amidst a flurry of military and media excitement, unexpected complications arise. Nathen grapples with the realization that the aliens may not be arriving in the physical sense humans anticipate. Instead, their strange movements and the nature of their environment hint at a different spatial or temporal dimension, culminating in a gripping tension that poses fundamental questions about perception and reality. The story ultimately reflects on the limitations of human understanding when confronted with the unknown. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aScience fiction
653 _aShort stories
653 _aExtraterrestrial beings -- Fiction
653 _aHuman-alien encounters -- Fiction
700 1 _aSchneider, Martin
830 0 _aProduced from Galaxy Science Fiction August 1951
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/51193
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