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    Omnilingual
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    Ebook7 pages1 minute

    Omnilingual

    By H. Beam Piper

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateFeb 1, 2007

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    • 4/5
      Great little story by Pipper. Should have been expanded into a full length novel. Most of his SF works are in the juvenile category. Piper is not one of my top ten Classic SF authors but he is always worth a read.This story has some great ideas and made me want to find out more about this lost culture. It's dated but it provides an opportunity to immerse yourself in the Classic SF era of the 1950s-1960s.
    • 4/5
      Silly, old-time fun.There's no point in pretending the science is anything other than dated, the sexism isn't appalling, and the "scientists" are at all credible. These yahoos would be tossed out of a real university when they leaped to their first unsupported conclusion with the focus and intensity of an impala pursued by lions.But the "girl" scientists get proper credit and support from the male bosses, which makes a nice change from the reality we live in.And that's a wrap on 2019's reviews.
    • 4/5
      Nice short story set on Mars. Human archaeologists and soldiers are excavating the ruins of Martian civilization. We see the story through the character of the woman linguist-archaeologist. The team is opening buildings and looking for artefacts and information about the lost world. There is the usual tension between the need to cooperate between the scientists and the desire to achieve individual fame. Our protagonist is on an obsessive quest to translate Martian texts. All other members of the team believe she is on a fools errand. They keep telling her there is no way to translate a new language without some key matching it to another known language. So, of course, since Martian is isolated and foreign from human languages, she can never succeed. I was very entertained by the development of the story. I even liked the old fashion touches like cigarette smoking. I enjoyed the role of science and the quest for knowledge contained in the story. It held my attention and would be fun for most readers who can take a story with no violence. This short book is available for free from Gutenberg. mars
    • 3/5
      This short story was written in the 1950s, and set on Mars in the 1990s. The Martians have all been dead for thousands of years. There's lots of Martian writing, but how can it be translated if there's no bilingual document like the Rosetta stone?The archaeology seems a bit unorthodox: smoking in newly discovered rooms, and using explosives to get into abandoned buildings. You can tell that nuclear power was the new thing in the 1950s as well.
    • 3/5
      This is a novella originally published in Astounding Science Fiction in 1957. I discovered it on a free audio book site and finished reading it on my Kindle (it's available free from both Amazon and Gutenberg). An advance group of scientists, military, and civilians begins uncovering a Martian city which died out 50,000 years ago. One archaeologist believes she has a (very long) shot at deciphering Martian writing but needs a big find: a Rosetta stone which gives humans even a few words they can be sure of for building a vocabulary. Her colleagues are generally discouraging, but she perseveres - and has good luck. Typical 50s SF, with women called "girls" and smoking allowed in the rooms being excavated. Still, neat to read, and certainly a quick one for a sci fi category.
    • 4/5
      This is a quick, fairly enjoyable read about a group of archaeologists, linguists, and other scientists excavating 50,000 year old ruins on Mars in the hopes of discovered what happened to the Martians and, ideally, deciphering their language. This book seemed fairly accurate in terms of the characters methodology (I can really only speak to the linguistic aspect, however). My one (petty) complaint is that it seems unlikely that Martian morphology would be so similar to English morphology. This story presented an interesting premise that could have been longer. As the book went on, I was trying to guess what did happen to the Martians; maybe they migrated to Earth!

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