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Happy to see Stanislaw Lem on this list! He was obsessed with humans not having the capability of seeing or understanding aliens. His Master's Voice is about a
by a_bonobo 3y ago
Happy to see Stanislaw Lem on this list! He was obsessed with humans not having the capability of seeing or understanding aliens.
His Master's Voice is about a SETI-like project that found a recurring signal, and the international effort to decode that signal (spoiler: it fails, gets defunded, the book ends)
Fiasco is a bit more 'normal' in its first contact story, but here too the communication fails abruptly for no apparent reason. Eden is my favorite - it's a bit like the Rama books, a space crew explores an alien land and can't make heads or tails of it.