- Exploration, Fiction, Human-alien encounters, Life on other planets
In December, 1999, a multinational team journeys out to the stars, to the most awesome encounter in human history. Who -- or what -- is out there? In Cosmos, Carl Sagan explained the universe. In Contact, he predicts its future -- and our own.
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Epic, earnest, classical in form and grave.
- intimateepic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
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- Author
- Carl Sagan
- First published
- 1986
- Pages
- 432
- Publisher
- EMECE, Simon and Schuster, Huang guan wen hua chu ban yu xian gong si
- Editions
- 50
- Language
- tur, Spanish, French, hrv
- ISBN
- 9780099469506
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“By human standards it could not possibly have been artificial: It was the size of a world.”
Carl Sagan was an American Pulitzer-prize winning author and astrophysicist. Sagan is the author of more than 600 publications. <q>“For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.” </cite>― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark</cite></q>
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