His Master’s Voice (Masterplots II: World Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Stanislaw Lem
- First Published: 1968
- Type of Work: Science fiction
- Time of Work: The 1960’s
- Setting: A huge science project center in the desert Southwest
- Principal Characters: Peter E. Hogarth, Saul Rappaport, Donald Prothero, Eugene Nye
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: 1960’s, Extraterrestrial life, Science or scientists, Southwest, Technology, Deserts, Chemical warfare
- Locales: Southwest (U.S.)
The Novel
The title of Stanisław Lem’s novel His Master’s Voice is taken from a nickname given by scientists to a possible communication from outer space: a stream of subatomic particles (neutrinos) in a recurring pattern. The prob-lem which the scientists face is to “read” the pattern, thereby determining its content, sender, and purpose. To accomplish this task, the United States government assembles the nation’s best scientific minds in the desert South-west, in a research facility once devoted to work on the atom bomb. The bulk of the novel is...
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