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Original Title:	Głos Pana
ISBN:	0810117312 (ISBN13: 9780810117310)
Edition Language:	English

His Master's Voice

Stanisław Lem

Paperback | Pages: 199 pages

Rating: 4.11 | 3179 Users | 236 Reviews

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Twenty-five hundred scientists have been herded into an isolated site in the Nevada desert. A neutrino message of extraterrestrial origin has been received and the scientists, under the surveillance of the Pentagon, labor on His Master's Voice, the secret program set up to decipher the transmission. Among them is Peter Hogarth, an eminent mathematician. When the project reaches a stalemate, Hogarth pursues clandestine research into the classified TX Effect--another secret breakthrough. But when he discovers, to his horror, that the TX Effect could lead to the construction of a fission bomb, Hogarth decides such knowledge must not be allowed to fall into the hands of the military.

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Title	:	His Master's Voice
Author	:	Stanisław Lem
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 199 pages
Published	:	November 25th 1999 by Northwestern University Press (first published 1968)
Categories	:	Science Fiction. Fiction. Philosophy. European Literature. Polish Literature

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Lem has inspired comments on science in the real world: the creeping insular bias of a particular scientific field, the institutional bias of modern science, the troubled relationship between science and its government (often military) funding sources, and the impossibility of a really "objective" science. To reread for sure. I'll go read some more of Lem's books for the time being..

Let me start by saying that I've owned this book for around five or six years and have only just completed it. I've made several attempts over the years, the most recent of which involving swearing to myself that I would not read anything else until I completed it. Well, I've completed it, and the sensation is something akin to climbing a grueling mountain only to turn around afterward and discover that it was, in fact, an anthill.Don't get me wrong. Lem's brilliant ability to misdirect the

This extraordinary novel from the favorite writer of my youth, Stanisław Lem, defies categorizations. While on the surface it is a suspense novel or a "mystery" (more precisely, a scientific and philosophical mystery/suspense), it is actually more of a treatise on the human species' place in the Universe. Mr. Lem, who began in 1940s as a science-fiction writer and became the world's most widely read science-fiction author, left his mark on the 20th century as one of the deepest thinkers writing

An excellent treatment of the relentless march of scientific progress and discovery and its shortcomings. However, the book reads like a debate rather than an involving narrative. There is no plot. A seemingly alien message is intercepted by Earth but it is a language and technology not previously encountered. The best minds of the democratic West are assembled to try and crack its mystery, including the mathematician narrator, whose main role turns out to be that of skeptic, providing the

Sort of like the anti-Contact (or, as it precedes Sagan's novel, maybe Contact is the juvenile, safe-for-kids rose-colored version of HMV).Works much better as philosophy than as a novel. The psuedo-memoir structure adds nothing, and deletes any sense of urgency about the message; despite the final third attempting (unsuccessfully) to instill something akin to a generic scientists vs. military conflict. The opening took me 2 tries to get through, and seems fairly unnecessary having finished the

Signal as NoiseAs is typical with much of his other work, Lem explores a perennial philosophical issue in His Masters Voice: How can we know that what we think we know has any claim to reality? Lems use of a very Borgesian pseudo-factual account of a mathematicians encounter with a cosmic intelligence is brilliantly apt. Plato knew the problem well; Kant re-stated it ad nauseam; and Trump confirms its significance on a daily basis. Don Delillos Ratners Star has a similar theme (See:

The translation from Polish to English by Michael Kandel reads like an original. However, Lems scientists are immersed in long theoretical discussions about quantum physics and neutrinos much beyond my reading interests. Moreover, as a science-fiction fan, I find Lems view on this genre and life in the universe dated and ironic, a view of the Milky Way from 1967, a universe mostly barren and void of exoplanets.Through his characters, he describes science fiction as: "that popular genre