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H. Beam Piper · 1957

A 1957 science fiction novella by H. Beam Piper, originally published in Astounding Science Fiction. It follows archaeologist Martha Dane and her team excavating a dead Martian city, where they face the challenge of deciphering a language whose last speakers died fifty thousand years ago.

Public domain in the US. From Project Gutenberg.

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