"Alien Message" reminds me of Robert E. Vardeman's "Weapons of Chaos" trilogy: http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/v/robert-e-vardeman/ http://www.fantasticfictio

"Alien Message" reminds me of Robert E. Vardeman's "Weapons of Chaos" trilogy: http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/v/robert-e-vardeman/ http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/v/robert-e-vardeman/ Just as Yudkowsky's short story, those Vardeman novels include advanced aliens living on a much slower time-scale (and much larger space-scale) than we. Man's accidental incursion into their domain triggers a slow-scale attack response that Mankind doesn't at first recognize as intelligent.