Pictures Don't Lie - A Positronic Book - Softcover

Maclean, Katherine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1515404374 ISBN 13: 9781515404378

Verlag: Positronic Publishing, 2016

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A clever first-contact story from one of science fiction's sharpest observers of perception, communication, and human assumption. In Pictures Don't Lie, Earth receives signals from an approaching alien ship, including transmissions that seem to show friendly, humanlike visitors on their way to a carefully prepared landing. Scientists, officials, reporters, and the public wait for history to unfold, confident that the pictures they have decoded tell them what they need to know. But first contact is rarely simple, and Katherine MacLean turns the familiar alien-arrival premise into a sly and memorable puzzle about interpretation. Radio signals, images, expectations, and language all become traps when two intelligent species try to understand one another across an immense gap of experience. What appears obvious to one side may be dangerously misleading to the other, and the difference between seeing and understanding becomes the heart of the story. Originally published in Galaxy Science Fiction in August 1951, Pictures Don't Lie shows MacLean's gift for compact speculative storytelling: witty, humane, and built around a scientific idea with real dramatic consequences. For readers of classic science fiction, vintage first-contact tales, and stories about alien communication, this short work remains a smart reminder that evidence can be accurate while still leading the observer completely astray.

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Katherine MacLean was an American science fiction writer known for intelligent, psychologically acute stories that often explored social behavior, communication, biology, and the consequences of scientific ideas. Her fiction appeared in leading magazines of the genre, including Galaxy Science Fiction, and she became especially admired for stories that combined speculative invention with a clear interest in how people think, organize, misunderstand, and adapt. MacLean's work remains valued by readers of classic science fiction for its wit, precision, and unusually strong attention to human perception and social dynamics.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Positronic Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1515404374
• ISBN 13: 9781515404378
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 26
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