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Old 10-16-2016, 05:55 AM   #24769
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Originally Posted by Pulpmeister View Post
A new supersensitive radio telescope picks up a faint, but unmistakably artificial, transmission from M31, another galaxy far away.

Recorded and laboriously decoded proves to be a 3-part message contained instructions on building a supercomputer, plus its operating system, plus a programme; all being broadcast endlessly into space from somewhere in M31.
Sounds a lot like Carl Sagan's Contact and Jack McDevitt's The Hercules Text, both published about 25 years later (1985, 1986). If you've read either of those, how's it compare?

As for me, I'm in the middle of Oz Reimagined, an anthology that's pretty much what it says on the tin: reinterpretations of and sequels to Dorothy's adventures over the rainbow. (At present, I'm in the midst of "One Flew Over the Rainbow," which recasts the protagonists as mental patients and the witches as the head nurses.) I had to smile at one turn of phrase in "Dead Blue," an earlier story: "Dorothy's eyes were flat blue, the color of television, tuned to a dead channel." Time marches on, n'est-ce pas?
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