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Carl Sagan Contact
Simon Schuster Trade 0671434004 / 9780671434007 Hardcover Fine
0671434004 Near fine in little nicked near fine dust jacket. First edition.
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Carl Sagan Contact
Pocket Books NY 1986 0671434225 / 9780671434229 Mass Market Paperback Very Good
0671434225 Used book. Very good, some creasing.
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Carl Sagan Contact
Pocket Books 1997 0671004107 / 9780671004101 Paperback Very Good
0671004107 Amazon.com It is December 1999, the dawn of the millennium, and a team of international scientists is poised for the most fantastic adventure in human history. After years of scanning the galaxy for signs of somebody or something else, this team believes they've found a message from an intelligent source--and they travel deep into space to meet it. Pulitzer Prize winner Carl Sagan injects Contact, his prophetic adventure story, with scientific details that make it utterly believable. It is a Cold War era novel that parlays the nuclear paranoia of the time into exquisitely wrought tension among the various countries involved. Sagan meditates on science, religion, and government--the elements that define society--and looks to their impact on and role in the future. His ability to pack an exciting read with such rich content is an unusual talent that makes Contact a modern sci-fi classic. --This text refers to the Paperback edition. From Publishers Weekly Who could be better qualified than the author of the highly successful Cosmos to turn the possibility of extraterrestrial intelligence, and humankind's first contact with it, into imaginative reality? This is precisely what Sagan does in this eagerly awaited and, as it turns out, engrossing first novel. The basic plot is very simple. A worldwide system of radio telescopes, in the charge of brilliant astrophysicist Ellie Arroway, picks up a "Message" from outer space. Ellie is instrumental in decoding the message and building the "Machine" for which it gives instructions (despite stiff opposition from religious fundamentalists and those scientists and politicians who fear it may be a Trojan Horse). Then she and fellow members of a small multinational team board the machine, take a startling trip into outer spaceand on their return must convince the scientific community that they are not the perpetrators of a hoax. Sagan's characters, mostly scientists, are credible without being memorable, and he supplies a love interest that is less than compelling. However, his informed and dramatically enacted speculations into the mysteries of the universe, taken to the point where science and religion touch, make his story an exciting intellectual adventure and science fiction of a high order. First serial to Discover Magazine; BOMC selection. Foreign rights: S & S. October 1 Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Carl Sagan Contact
US Pocket Books 1997 0671004107 / 9780671004101 Mass Market Pa Very Good
0671004107 Literature & Fiction Very good little creased448p
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Carl Sagan The Dragons of Eden
Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A. Random House 1977 0394410459 / 9780394410456 Hardcover Very Good Very Good
0394410459 Very Good in very good nicked little edge-chipped dust jacket. 3rd printing.
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