I checked the Sagan’s Contact (full text). There is not a single “thrum” in the book. There are a few “the low”, but not in this context.
only read chapter 1 and 35
I think the whole thing is worth reading, in spite of its shortcomings. One could say that the very act of reading the first AI-generated science fiction novella is a sort of a first contact with an alien mind by itself.
A strange alien that is desperate to sound like a human, and is already better at mimicking humans than most humans, but is clearly not a human.
Sorry for late reply. I meant that Contact begins with Eleanor listening to the sounds being picked up the radio telescopes and then suddenly hears the gutteral throbbing of the alien message.
I checked the Sagan’s Contact (full text). There is not a single “thrum” in the book. There are a few “the low”, but not in this context.
I think the whole thing is worth reading, in spite of its shortcomings. One could say that the very act of reading the first AI-generated science fiction novella is a sort of a first contact with an alien mind by itself.
A strange alien that is desperate to sound like a human, and is already better at mimicking humans than most humans, but is clearly not a human.
Sorry for late reply. I meant that Contact begins with Eleanor listening to the sounds being picked up the radio telescopes and then suddenly hears the gutteral throbbing of the alien message.