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Title	:	His Master's Voice
Author	:	Stanisław Lem
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 199 pages
Published	:	November 25th 1999 by Northwestern University Press (first published 1968)
Categories	:	Science Fiction. Fiction. Philosophy. European Literature. Polish Literature

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Twenty-five hundred scientists have been herded into an isolated site in the Nevada desert. A neutrino message of extraterrestrial origin has been received and the scientists, under the surveillance of the Pentagon, labor on His Master's Voice, the secret program set up to decipher the transmission. Among them is Peter Hogarth, an eminent mathematician. When the project reaches a stalemate, Hogarth pursues clandestine research into the classified TX Effect--another secret breakthrough. But when he discovers, to his horror, that the TX Effect could lead to the construction of a fission bomb, Hogarth decides such knowledge must not be allowed to fall into the hands of the military.

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Original Title:	Głos Pana
ISBN:	0810117312 (ISBN13: 9780810117310)
Edition Language:	English

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The translation from Polish to English by Michael Kandel reads like an original. However, Lems scientists are immersed in long theoretical discussions about quantum physics and neutrinos much beyond my reading interests. Moreover, as a science-fiction fan, I find Lems view on this genre and life in the universe dated and ironic, a view of the Milky Way from 1967, a universe mostly barren and void of exoplanets.Through his characters, he describes science fiction as: "that popular genre

This book had been on my shelf for years, and I knew I wanted to read it at some point. It is considered a classic and certainly Lem's Solaris is one of the best mind screwing sci-fi novels ever written. Lem pretty much broke the forth wall spoke directly to us on page 31: "The Reader who plowed his[their] way to this point and is waiting , with growing impatience, to be lead into a inner sanctum of the famous enigma, in the hope that I will regale him [them]with thrills and chills every bit as

This extraordinary novel from the favorite writer of my youth, Stanisław Lem, defies categorizations. While on the surface it is a suspense novel or a "mystery" (more precisely, a scientific and philosophical mystery/suspense), it is actually more of a treatise on the human species' place in the Universe. Mr. Lem, who began in 1940s as a science-fiction writer and became the world's most widely read science-fiction author, left his mark on the 20th century as one of the deepest thinkers writing

Grande Lem.

Lem has inspired comments on science in the real world: the creeping insular bias of a particular scientific field, the institutional bias of modern science, the troubled relationship between science and its government (often military) funding sources, and the impossibility of a really "objective" science. To reread for sure. I'll go read some more of Lem's books for the time being..

While Stanislaw Lem was not known as a writing man of action, neither was he Samuel Beckett for the most part either. But my goodness there is such a thing as taking it to extremes. Fortunately, Lem was a thinker on such a ridiculously intense level that if you're the right kind of SF reader then this is come across like manna from heaven. If you're the kind of person who seeks out authors based on George Clooney's starring film choices, you're going to be in for a bit of a surprise, because

Signal as NoiseAs is typical with much of his other work, Lem explores a perennial philosophical issue in His Masters Voice: How can we know that what we think we know has any claim to reality? Lems use of a very Borgesian pseudo-factual account of a mathematicians encounter with a cosmic intelligence is brilliantly apt. Plato knew the problem well; Kant re-stated it ad nauseam; and Trump confirms its significance on a daily basis. Don Delillos Ratners Star has a similar theme (See: