{"description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "The universe has been explored--and humanity has all but given up on finding other intelligent life. Then an alien satellite orbiting a distant star sends out an unreadable signal. Is it the final programmed gasp of an ancient, long-dead race? Or the first greeting of an undiscovered life form?"}, "covers": [284002], "key": "/works/OL92855W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL29268A"}}], "title": "Chindi", "subjects": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Fiction, science fiction, general", "Priscilla Hutchins (Fictitious character)", "Human-alien encounters", "Extraterrestrial anthropology", "Interstellar communication", "Life on other planets", "Space ships"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "latest_revision": 7, "revision": 7, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-10-17T14:17:30.632241"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-05-05T09:29:31.615671"}}