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Bill Mathers

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First appears in Book 1: The Three-Body Problem, chapter 14 (14)

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Book 1: The Three-Body Problem

Ch 14Sociologist at RAND Corporation who proposed the 'contact as symbol' theory in his book The 100,000-Light-Year Iron Curtain: SETI Sociology.
Ch 29Mathers's 'contact as symbol' theory received chilling confirmation from the ETO's alienation from humanity.

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