[extropy-chat] sci-fi question

[Kevin Freels]

Baxter's "Manifold Time" was very good.
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From: "BillK" <pharos at gmail.com>
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> On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 09:51:55 +0100, scerir wrote:
> > Are there sci-fictions suggesting
> > the 3°K cosmic background radiation
> > to consist of e.m. transmissions
> > of long-dead civilizations?
>
> Try "Written on the Wind" by David D. Levine    August 2002
> a message encoded in the three-degree background radiation
> or
> "Time" by Stephen Baxter  1999
> Malenfant tunes in to Feynman Radio signals interference in the
> background radiation of the Big Bang. He does indeed discover a
> message from the future.
> or
> "Signal to Noise" by Eric S Nylund 1999
> Jack discovers something cloaked in the hiss of background radiation
> streaming past the Earth from deep space: a message from an alien
> civilization.
>
> I cannot recommend any of these stories as I haven't read them.
>
> BillK
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