Tales from the SETI Cafe-Ghost Night

Science Fiction

Jun. 23, 2013

Today's Emerging Author Tales from the SETI Cafe by Mr Steve Geller ISBN / ASIN: 1478274360 When I entered the SETI Café around noon yesterday, everyone was listening to a new sound from the restaurant speakers. It sure wasn’t voice or music. It was a repeated sequence of a short fast warble, followed by a longer ragged buzz. From my shortwave listening days, I thought I recognized a digital packet or FAX radio transmission. Cosmo saw me standing listening at the doorway and came over. He gestured up at the speakers. “This is the latest thing from the stars,” he told me. “It’s a real signal, not something produced artificially by processing. The SETI people are pretty excited. It’s coming from some star that they haven’t listened to before, and it repeats. The radio telescope gets the same signal for about half an hour every couple months. This is the latest.” I saw Felix, the astronomy student, having lunch at a table in back. I went over to talk to him. “What is this new stuff?” Felix replied, “You remember Dr. Winston telling you about the technique of Statistical Signal Enhancement? Well, they actually got it to work to some degree. When they tried it on HD85, they got this stuff.” ... Continue Reading

Today's Bestseller Ghost Night (Bone Island Trilogy) by Heather Graham ISBN / ASIN: 0778328155 Before him, frond coral waved in a slow and majestic dance, and a small ray emerged from the sand by the reef, weaving in a swift escape, aware that a large presence, possibly predatory, was near. Sean O'Hara shot back up to the surface, pleased with his quick inspection of Pirate Cut, a shallow reef where divers and snorkelers alike came to enjoy the simple beauty of nature. It was throughout history a place where many a ship had met her doom, crushed by the merciless winds of a storm. Now only scattered remnants of that history remained; salvage divers of old had done their work along with the sea, salt and the constant shift of sands and tides and weather that remained ... Continue Reading..