Fauna Intergaláctica

# Catalog Note

"Fauna Intergalactica" by Adam Surray is a science fiction novella centered on an expedition to Mars. Astronauts Gilbert Janssen and Frank Steiner, crew of the spacecraft Cyclops-V, engage in philosophical debate about Earth's environmental degradation and technological hypocrisy while viewing their home planet from Mars. After witnessing an unexplained luminous phenomenon on the Martian surface, they abandon protocol and descend in the molab rover to investigate, discovering a massive alien structure—five enormous spheres connected by cylinders forming a pentagon, with a central silvered disk—positioned in a crater. Steiner argues for direct contact with what he theorizes is an extraterrestrial spacecraft, overriding Janssen's caution about communicating the discovery to Earth Base. The narrative emphasizes technical detail regarding spacesuits, equipment, and spacecraft systems alongside the mounting tension of first contact with an unknown intelligence.