SETI pick up a signal:
Quote:
"So what do you think the signal is? Some kind of super-encyclopaedia?"
He snorted. "Maybe. That's the fond hope among the contact optimists. But when the European colonists turned up on foreign shores, their first impulse wasn't to hand over encyclopaedias or histories, but—"
"Bibles."
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-- Stephen Baxter,
Turing's Apples (2008) - short story found in the
Eclipse 2 anthology.