SHORT FICTION | SCIFI

Agrover’s hologram to Puerto Ricans

His message is urgent and entangled.

Miguel Adrover

Dec 14, 2020·4 min read

An image from the console inside ESA’s Cebreros facility depicting the output **A Simple Response: interstellar message** transmitted on 10 Oct 2016 **CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons**

A femtosecond rendering of an uncanny head; smiling, like a mischievous
20-year old Ernesto Guevara. Hair vantablack; long at the top, left side, and back — right side barren, ersatz follicles no longer work;
here, a meta-ink embed reads: