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Motivated by the mirror symmetry conjecture for \(K3\) surfaces which is based on the observation that the period integrals of \(K3\) surfaces are easier to compute on mirror partners or to construct lattice polarized \(K3\) surfaces with large Picard numbers passing onto mirror partners, the authors discuss several examples of pencils of lattice polarized \(K3\) surfaces with Picard number 19 whose mirror maps are not always modular (in the sense defined by the authors in section 1) but commensurable with Thompson series. These examples should be compared with the so-called mirror-moonshine conjecture of Lian-Yau which states that the mirror maps of pencils of certain lattice polarized \(K3\) surfaces are modular in the sense of Doran (section 6.2). The authors include possible generalizations to \(K3\) surfaces with Picard number less than or equal to 18. As an example they construct pencils of \(M\)-polarized \(K3\) surfaces with \( M= U_2 \perp (-E_8)^2. \) The moduli of this space has dimension equal to two and the period domain may be identified with certain Hilbert moduli spaces. The authors extend the definitions of the mirror maps and compute them. They observe that the mirror maps in their examples are commensurable not only with Thompson series but also with modular functions associated to higher genus modular groups. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0935.00034].