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Start Publishing LLC · Ebook · February 28, 2023
To translate writings, you need a key to the code—and if the last writer of Martian died forty thousand years before the first writer of Earth was born ... how could the Martian be translated...?
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- Who it’s for
- A language puzzle meets the allure of an ancient, vanished civilization.
- Genres
- Space Opera, Alien Contact, Sci-Fi Short Stories
- Published
- Start Publishing LLC, February 28, 2023
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To translate writings, you need a key to the code—and if the last writer of Martian died forty thousand years before the first writer of Earth was born ... how could the Martian be translated...? An expedition from Earth to Mars discovers a deserted city, the remains of an advanced civilization that died out 50,000 years before. The human scientists recover books and documents left behind, and are puzzled by their contents.
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Will they be able to translate them . . . is it even possible?
The Martian Key
A language puzzle meets the allure of an ancient, vanished civilization.
Come here for
- Translation treated as a scientific problem
- Books and documents from an extinct Martian civilization
Expect
- An Earth expedition puzzling over what its discoveries mean
- A quietly unsettling question: can the writings be translated?
Where it sits
| Alien Contact | 53% |
|---|---|
| Sci-Fi Short Stories | 43% |
| Space Opera | 38% |
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Publisher categories
- Sci-Fi
- Sci-Fi Adventure
- Space Opera
- Authors
- H. Beam Piper
- Publisher
- Start Publishing LLC
- Published
- February 28, 2023
- Format
- Ebook
- Reading lane
- Sci-Fi