Contents page of a poetry pamphlet reading: Dedication 8 Slightly more serious dedication 8 By way of a preface… 11 A note on broken hearts 12 All about the Drake equation 14 A note on the Kardashev scale 19 This is us, speaking 21 On the search for extraterrestrial intelligence 22 Calling occupants of interplanetary craft 24 The city on the edge of whatever 25 It isn’t what they say, or even how they say it, but more about there being any they to speak at all 27 What is her mission here on earth... 28 The universe speaks to you 29 Personal space probe 33 She knows whereof she speaks… 34 We are nothing if we do not learn from this 37 On waking… 38 On man’s inhumanity to man… 40 Everything I know about humanity… 42 Let’s be clear, the book has ended 47 The shapes of things to come 48 Addendum 51 Acknowledgements 52 About the author 53
Cover of a poetry pamphlet, the title is "For the hypothetical aliens". It is orange and worn, like an old document folder, and it has some sort of security stamp declaring the contents top have been reclassified "Non sensitive"
View of the whole, opened cover of a poetry pamphlet called "For the hypothetical aliens" and with a logo proclaiming it is from "Literal Fraud Press". It carries the image of fake wear and tear, with particularly deep scratches on the back...
An inside page from a poetry pamphlet showing the start of a poem: _The universe speaks to you_ I - Water... ...flows, but has no thought of flowing. Every droplet of rain free to follow its weird find its level bead the underside of a leaf, the whole nonetheless adding up to moorland brook, burbling here and now and in a single direction. Far downstream, current toys with grit does not imagine things better if this pebble were elsewhere but nags at it wobbles it urges it to move and a mere thousand years later a mighty estuary deltas one side of the continent. The stream meanwhile is cutting a new channel through the limestone ridge. Each molecule is part of something larger and doesn't know or things it knows do not make sense. Water's unfeeling mechanism floods a city or builds an ecosystem and even if the outcome of civilisation is nothing humans comprehend it will be that rich.
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I wrote a book.
It is called "For the hypothetical aliens" and it is [1/4]
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