{"id":793472,"date":"2025-02-10T04:19:05","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T09:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=793472"},"modified":"2025-02-10T04:19:05","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T09:19:05","slug":"would-we-recognise-alien-intelligence-asks-adrian-tchaikovsky-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=793472","title":{"rendered":"Would we recognise alien intelligence, asks Adrian Tchaikovsky novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"ArticleImage\">\n<div class=\"Image__Wrapper\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">What might be lurking on the surface of the unusual moon Shroud?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">Shutterstock\/Iurii<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Shroud<\/strong><\/em><br \/><strong>Adrian Tchaikovsky (Tor)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The latest novel by Adrian Tchaikovsky, <i>Shroud<\/i>, examines the question of whether, faced with an alien intelligence, we would actually perceive it as intelligent. That and whether the aliens would recognise us as anything above pond life.<\/p>\n<p>The setting is the far future and a foray by a commercial vessel into a new star system. The ship\u2019s culture is cruel, petty and highly corporate \u2013 that is, entirely recognisable to humans alive today. The crew are unfrozen, used as needed, then summarily refrozen.\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg26535290-600-would-we-recognise-alien-intelligence-asks-adrian-tchaikovsky-novel\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=space&#038;rand=772163\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What might be lurking on the surface of the unusual moon Shroud? Shutterstock\/Iurii ShroudAdrian Tchaikovsky (Tor) The latest novel by Adrian Tchaikovsky, Shroud, examines the question of whether, faced with&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":793473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-793472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-scientist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=793472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/793473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=793472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=793472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=793472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}