Adrian Tchaikovsky's latest novel, WrapExamine the question of whether, faced with an extraterrestrial intelligence, we would actually perceive it as intelligent. That and if the extraterrestrials would recognize us as something above the life of the pond.
The parameter is the Far Future and a foray into a commercial ship in a new star system. The culture of the ship is cruel, petty and very corporate-that is to say fully recognizable by living humans today. The crew is not derogated
