Project Gutenberg 2016-02-12 Public domain in the USA. 133 MacLean, Katherine 1925 2019 Morris, G. A. MacLean, Katherine Anne Dye, Charles Schneider, Martin Pictures Don't Lie Reading ease score: 74.5 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "Pictures Don't Lie" by Katherine MacLean is a science fiction novella that was likely written in the early 1950s. The story explores the themes of communication and understanding between humans and extraterrestrial beings. It centers around a young decoder, Joseph R. Nathen, who discovers that static noise from stars may be signs of intelligent life, leading to the first contact with aliens. The narrative follows Nathen as he decodes signals from space, eventually establishing a form of communication with a spaceship and encountering the alien beings. As he prepares for their landing on Earth amidst a flurry of military and media excitement, unexpected complications arise. Nathen grapples with the realization that the aliens may not be arriving in the physical sense humans anticipate. Instead, their strange movements and the nature of their environment hint at a different spatial or temporal dimension, culminating in a gripping tension that poses fundamental questions about perception and reality. The story ultimately reflects on the limitations of human understanding when confronted with the unknown. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Science fiction Short stories Extraterrestrial beings -- Fiction Human-alien encounters -- Fiction PS Text Science Fiction Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Browsing: Fiction 68263 2024-10-21T11:33:10.153619 2023-09-22T08:33:43.983337 text/html text/html 64577 2016-02-12T16:34:10 text/html; charset=us-ascii 303502 2016-02-12T16:34:12 text/html; charset=us-ascii application/zip 334042 2024-10-21T11:33:12.221631 application/epub+zip 332975 2024-10-21T11:33:10.573670 application/epub+zip 82041 2024-10-21T11:33:10.342635 application/epub+zip 373567 2024-10-21T11:33:13.627797 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 365580 2024-10-21T11:33:11.988643 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 114924 2022-09-23T09:59:34.619895 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 60880 60785 2024-10-21T11:33:09.976647 2023-09-22T08:33:43.793325 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 60786 2016-02-12T16:34:10 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 23453 2016-02-12T16:34:12 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20612 2024-10-21T11:33:13.762624 application/rdf+xml 31988 2024-10-21T11:33:10.412626 image/jpeg 4864 2024-10-21T11:33:10.377655 image/jpeg 304724 2024-10-21T11:33:10.169619 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia