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His master's voice / Stanislaw Lem ; translated from the Polish by Michael Kandel.

By: Contributor(s): Language: English Original language: Polish Publisher: San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1984]Copyright date: copyright �1983Edition: First Havrest/HBJ edition 1984Description: 199 pages ; 18 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0156403005
  • 9780156403009
Uniform titles:
  • G�os pana. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 891.8/537 19
LOC classification:
  • PG7158.L39 G613 1984
Online resources: Summary: 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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Translation of: G�os pana.

"A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book."

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.