His Master’s Voice (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Stanislaw Lem
- First Published: 1968
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Science fiction
- Time of Work: The 1960’s
- Setting: The desert Southwest
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: 1960’s, Extraterrestrial life, Science or scientists, Southwest, Technology, Deserts, Chemical warfare
- Locales: Southwest (U.S.)
Characters Discussed
Peter E. Hogarth, a professor of mathematics. A middle-aged man who has died of an undisclosed illness by the time his memoirs are published, Hogarth is a moralist whose actions contradict his opinion of himself as an evil man. An independent thinker and scientific iconoclast, he proves that a neutrino message sent to Earth by unknown aliens is a circular description of an (unknown) object. Confronted with the military application of this knowledge, he despairs, but he is relieved on learning that such an abuse is not possible. Hogarth comes to think that...
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