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His Master's Voice by Stanislaw Lem is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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, under the surveillance of the Pentagon, the scientists labor on His Master's Voice, the secret program set up to decipher the transmission.. "Among them is Peter Hogarth, an eminent mathematician whose posthumous diary makes up the novel. Hogarth joins His Master's Voice after all efforts to decode the message prove futile and, after an early success, gives up on the project to pursue clandestine research into the so-called TX effect. Hogarth comes to realize that the TX effect could lead to the construction of the ultimate weapon - a fission bomb - and that such knowledge must not be allowed into the hands of the military.. "Originally published in 1968, His Master's Voice takes to task the military takeover of scientific research, Cold War - era politics, and humanity's perpetual capacity for self-destruction. It remains a mordant satire on scientific microworlds and the monstrous political and military systems bankrolling them. <p>A witty look at scientists and their thinking by "the best scienc

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Author

Stanislaw Lem

Publisher

Northwestern University Press

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9780810117310

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Science

Rating

4.11 / 5 (1,883 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14