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...ANDROMEDA (206 pp.)-Fred Hoyle and John Elliof-Harper...
Plugged Brain. Sure enough, within 20 pages the supersensitive reflector picks up a complex series of dots and dashes speeding earthward from the Andromeda constellation, a thousand million million miles away. Excitedly, Fleming discovers that the elaborate code is written in binary arithmetic and contains the design for an electronic brain far more sophisticated than any known to earthlings. Once built and plugged in. the space computer goes pocketa-pocketa-blink-thump and hands out a formula for creating human life. The formula, concocted by a human chemist, produces a disappointing first model: a large, jellied blob with...
...researcher and induces her to grab two of its exposed wires. Snap, crackle, pop-the girl is electrocuted, but the machine is now able to devise the exact formula for creating a human embryo by parthenogenesis. In four months the embryo grows into a beautiful, submissive-seeming blonde named Andromeda, who behaves like a highly intelligent zombie...
...Only heavenly body visible to the naked eye that is not part of earth's own galaxy is M 31 (in the constellation of Andromeda), a galaxy 2,000,000 light-years away. Through high-powered telescopes, astronomers have detected millions of other galaxies, presume there are billions more beyond...
...star clusters in the Magellanic Clouds (small, comparatively nearby galaxies) seemed to be much fainter intrinsically than similar clusters in the Milky Way. This offended the astronomers' sense of order. They felt that the clusters in both galaxies should be about equally bright. When clusters in the great Andromeda galaxy also proved too faint, the astronomers suspected their calculations...