Communication Problem by John Christopher

Author:John Christopher [Christopher, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: science fiction, shortstory
Published: 1967-11-30T06:00:00+00:00

At that point, one of the coasters saw it. A small speck bobbing on the port bow. After that, everything went quickly and smoothly.

Within twenty minutes the Mori had the raft in tow, with the solitary drenched survivor on board. He was treated with all the respect due a member of the race that had built the great galleon which had flamed three times round the planet before plunging to its death in the waters.

This respectful treatment, however, was not entirely disinterested. If only they could establish communication with this survivor, the Mori realized untold advantages might ensue. For even if this one survivor were not himself a skilled technologist, he could provide hints which might enable breakthroughs to be made in a dozen different fields.

To this end, always with due courtesy and deference, some of the finest minds among the Mori were bent to the task: biologists, psychologists, physicists, mathematicians. All worked on the project.

They were confident it would not be long before a proper contact was established. But the weeks went by, and then the months, and the alien stayed an alien, his expression inscrutable, his mind unknown.

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