Astronomer Bova draws upon the facts of his field to weave a story that will grip your emotions and tantalize your mind—long after you have finished reading it.
Two drafted soldiers, an optical astronomer and a radio astronomer, are stationed in an isolated weather dome at the South Pole for the winter. While observing a distant star, they inexplicably detect a complex signal being transmitted through space. Through painstaking analysis, they determine the signal carries a message conveying the technological history of an advanced alien civilization.
Rizzo looked at the semi-circle of control consoles, computers, and meteorological sensors with an expression of disgust that could be produced only by a drafted soldier.
“Tell ’em it’s cold, it’s gonna get colder, and we’ve both got appendicitis and need replacements immediately.”
Benjamin William Bova, born November 8, 1932 and died November 29, 2020, was an American writer and editor. During a writing career of 60 years, he was the author of more than 120 works of science fact and fiction, an editor of Analog Science Fiction and Fact, for which he won a Hugo Award six times, and an editorial director of Omni; he was also president of both the National Space Society and the Science Fiction Writers of America.
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First Published 1962
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