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A prescient warning of a future we now inhabit, where fake news stories and Internet conspiracy theories play to a disaffected American populace
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Earnest, spare, classical in form and resolved.
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- contemporarynostalgic
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- Author
- Carl Sagan
- First published
- March 1, 1996
- Pages
- 472
- Publisher
- Paw Prints 2008-06-26, Droemer Knaur, Nova Audio Books
- Editions
- 35
- Language
- tur, Chinese, heb, English
- ISBN
- 9789576215858
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“It was a blustery fall day in 1939.”
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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