Books His Master's Voice Free Download Online

Present About Books His Master's Voice

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

His Master's Voice

Stanisław Lem

Paperback | Pages: 199 pages

Rating: 4.11 | 3179 Users | 236 Reviews

Ilustration Conducive To Books His Master's Voice

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.

List Books To His Master's Voice

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

Rating About Books His Master's Voice

Ratings: 4.11 From 3179 Users | 236 Reviews

Criticize About Books His Master's Voice

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:

Here we have more of Lem's tragic scientists, deep characters whose interactions, as always with Lem, sometimes read like a novel of manners from another dimension. His Masters Voice can feel like a series of disconnected essays on grand themes, but the whole thing adds up to a wrenching statement about the impossibility of knowledge and the human place in a vast universe. The patchwork of ideas in this book fuse with a weird, white hot intensity that will move you, despite yourself.It's sad

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:

His Master's Voice is probably best described as a grown up version of Carl Sagan's Contact. This is a very unique sci-fi, in a good way. It is first and foremost an ambitious and humbling philosophical treatise on humanity and our place in the universe. This is then grounded in a short story about a team of scientists in a project similar to the Manhattan Project who are trying to decipher a discovered message encoded in a neutrino signal. The book raises several intriguing possibilities about

This is a science fiction novel but it is only sort-of science fiction, and, for that matter, only sort-of a novel.It's in the form of a memoir or musing by a noted mathematician who worked in the upper levels of a secret government project code-named His Master's Voice the purpose of which was to decode and comprehend a message, seemingly sent by intelligent beings from outer space, on neutrino waves.We are told from the outset that the project was not successful no communication was set

This book had been on my shelf for years, and I knew I wanted to read it at some point. It is considered a classic and certainly Lem's Solaris is one of the best mind screwing sci-fi novels ever written. Lem pretty much broke the forth wall spoke directly to us on page 31: "The Reader who plowed his[their] way to this point and is waiting , with growing impatience, to be lead into a inner sanctum of the famous enigma, in the hope that I will regale him [them]with thrills and chills every bit as