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Message from Mars: A Positronic Book
Hardcover
ISBN13: 9781515452737
Publisher: Positronic Publishing
Published: Sep 16 2021
Pages: 36
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.25 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A Golden Age science fiction tale in which a signal from Mars challenges humanity's understanding of intelligence, distance, and destiny.
In Message from Mars, Clifford D. Simak explores first contact not as spectacle, but as quiet revelation. When a transmission from the red planet reaches Earth, it carries more than technical mystery-it unsettles political assumptions, scientific certainty, and humanity's confidence in its own centrality. Simak's characteristic restraint replaces bombast with reflection, allowing the drama to unfold through measured discovery and moral choice.
Written during the formative decades of American science fiction, the story exemplifies Simak's enduring themes: rural humanism, philosophical speculation, and the possibility that the universe may be stranger-and more humane-than expected. As both speculative adventure and thoughtful meditation, Message from Mars stands within the tradition of mid-century science fiction that valued idea over explosion and character over spectacle.
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