You stand in a throng of multifleshed being, mind avatared in all its matter, on a broad avenue winding through a city of blue trees with bright red foliage and living buildings growing from the soil in a multitude of forms. The humans build a "galactic receiver" that allows its users to engage in "artificial realities". In the story, humans receive messages from an alien galactic network that wishes to share knowledge and experience with other advanced civilizations through "songs". In Norman Spinrad's novel Songs from the Stars (1980), the term avatar is used in a description of a computer generated virtual experience. It was first used in a computer game by the 1979 PLATO role-playing game Avatar. The word avatar is ultimately derived from the Sanskrit word ( avatāra / ˈ æ v ə t ɑːr, ˌ æ v ə ˈ t ɑːr/) in Hinduism, it stands for the "descent" of a deity into a terrestrial form.
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