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  • YAID - message from space story

    From Lee Gleason@3:633/10 to All on Wed Dec 10 15:44:44 2025

    I'm trying to recall a story from the mid to late 60s. It was a
    serial in Analog. SETI researchers got a message from space that
    instructed how to build a computer. One was built, and much excitement
    ensued when it had malign goals of its own. Does anyone recall this story?

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    lee.gleason@comcast.net

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  • From Scott Dorsey@3:633/10 to All on Thu Dec 11 12:12:20 2025
    In article <fRl_Q.4849$0PAa.1384@fx18.iad>,
    Lee Gleason <lee.gleason@comcast.net> wrote:

    I'm trying to recall a story from the mid to late 60s. It was a
    serial in Analog. SETI researchers got a message from space that
    instructed how to build a computer. One was built, and much excitement >ensued when it had malign goals of its own. Does anyone recall this story?

    A for Andromeda by Fred Hoyle.
    --scott

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  • From Ignatios Souvatzis@3:633/10 to All on Fri Dec 12 18:18:47 2025
    Scott Dorsey wrote:
    In article <fRl_Q.4849$0PAa.1384@fx18.iad>,
    Lee Gleason <lee.gleason@comcast.net> wrote:

    I'm trying to recall a story from the mid to late 60s. It was a
    serial in Analog. SETI researchers got a message from space that >>instructed how to build a computer. One was built, and much excitement >>ensued when it had malign goals of its own. Does anyone recall this story?

    A for Andromeda by Fred Hoyle.

    A somehow similar story is Stanislav Lem, "His Masters Voice".

    Arhgevab Gryrfpbcr juvgr abvfr fbyq nf enaqbz ahzoref. Ohlre pbzynvaf
    gung vg ercrngf nsgre A fnzcyrf. N Znaunggna-Cebwrpg yvxr cebwrpg
    vf frghc gb qrpbqr gur zrffntr, erfhygvat va n jrncba gung'f
    hahfhnoyr orpnhfr vgf reebe enqvhf vf vapernfrq jvgu gur raretl
    eryrnfrq, fb va vagrerfgvat fvmrf vgf qnatrebhf gb gur unaqyre.

    -is

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  • From raglegumm@myaccess.ca@3:633/10 to All on Fri Dec 12 23:33:14 2025
    In article <10heu1k$anf$1@panix2.panix.com>, kludge@panix.com says...

    In article <fRl_Q.4849$0PAa.1384@fx18.iad>,
    Lee Gleason <lee.gleason@comcast.net> wrote:

    I'm trying to recall a story from the mid to late 60s. It was a
    serial in Analog. SETI researchers got a message from space that >instructed how to build a computer. One was built, and much excitement >ensued when it had malign goals of its own. Does anyone recall this story?

    A for Andromeda by Fred Hoyle.

    Seemingly not published in Analog ,unlike The_Siren_Stars .(Analog
    serial, message from space ...)

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