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Title: Naudsonce
Author: H. Beam Piper
Narrator: Harry Shaw
Format: Unabridged
Length: 1 hr and 42 mins
Language: English
Release date: 10-24-14
Publisher: Spoken Realms
Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi: Classic
Publisher's Summary:
Bishop Berkeley's famous question about the sound of a falling tree may have no standing in Science. But there is a highly interesting question about "sound" that Science needs to consider... A classic science fiction novelette by H. Beam Piper, first published in Analog Science Fact-Science Fiction in 1962.
Members Reviews:
Telepathy or . . . ?
What kind of title is "Nausonce"? The answer is, "appropriate," once you have read the story. The title looks like a non-sense word, but in actuallity it is a good example of one of the methods that new words are coigned and enter a language. The story also examines some of the basic theories of lingustics and semantics which have been developing for the past century in the context of a meeting between humans and another race of beings who hear and speak in so different a manner as to appear incomprehensible.
The theme of communication with others through cultural, verbal, or temporal barriers is a thread that runs though a good number of Mr. Piper's stories as examples: his "Fuzzy" series, "Omnilingual" and "Murder in the Gun Room"--Wherein the main character, Colonel Rand, purposely manipulates others through his use of semantics; and quite effectively at that.
We could all take the lesson from Mr. Piper's works that what we see and hear is subject to our own preconceptions and that we often confuse "truths" with "facts."
Unwinding alien emotions
This is a short story similar to others by Piper as it delves into a specific scientific "what-if." Taking a known biological process in our world, he morphs it into something else in another world. Unwinding the science, he takes us through not only human emotions but alien ones as well. I love this kind of sci-fi.
Five Stars
A real insight into the psychology of sentient beings.
Five Stars
Fine
Interesting problem
How to resolve a problem concerning the natives without making it look like the visitors are taking over the world? That's the premise. It works.
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Title: Naudsonce
Author: H. Beam Piper
Narrator: Harry Shaw
Format: Unabridged
Length: 1 hr and 42 mins
Language: English
Release date: 10-24-14
Publisher: Spoken Realms
Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi: Classic
Publisher's Summary:
Bishop Berkeley's famous question about the sound of a falling tree may have no standing in Science. But there is a highly interesting question about "sound" that Science needs to consider... A classic science fiction novelette by H. Beam Piper, first published in Analog Science Fact-Science Fiction in 1962.
Members Reviews:
Telepathy or . . . ?
What kind of title is "Nausonce"? The answer is, "appropriate," once you have read the story. The title looks like a non-sense word, but in actuallity it is a good example of one of the methods that new words are coigned and enter a language. The story also examines some of the basic theories of lingustics and semantics which have been developing for the past century in the context of a meeting between humans and another race of beings who hear and speak in so different a manner as to appear incomprehensible.
The theme of communication with others through cultural, verbal, or temporal barriers is a thread that runs though a good number of Mr. Piper's stories as examples: his "Fuzzy" series, "Omnilingual" and "Murder in the Gun Room"--Wherein the main character, Colonel Rand, purposely manipulates others through his use of semantics; and quite effectively at that.
We could all take the lesson from Mr. Piper's works that what we see and hear is subject to our own preconceptions and that we often confuse "truths" with "facts."
Unwinding alien emotions
This is a short story similar to others by Piper as it delves into a specific scientific "what-if." Taking a known biological process in our world, he morphs it into something else in another world. Unwinding the science, he takes us through not only human emotions but alien ones as well. I love this kind of sci-fi.
Five Stars
A real insight into the psychology of sentient beings.
Five Stars
Fine
Interesting problem
How to resolve a problem concerning the natives without making it look like the visitors are taking over the world? That's the premise. It works.