- Exploration, Popular works, Outer space, Cosmology
“Fascinating . . . memorable . . . revealing . . . perhaps the best of Carl Sagan’s books.”—The Washington Post Book World (front page review)
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Epic, earnest, classical in form and grave.
- intimateepic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Carl Sagan
- First published
- 1994
- Pages
- 429
- Publisher
- Headline, Media Books Llc, Headline Publishing Group
- Editions
- 19
- Language
- Spanish, Polish, English, Portuguese
- ISBN
- 9781531888121
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“The spacecraft was a long way from home, beyond the orbit of the outermost planet and high above the ecliptic plane-which is an imaginary flat surface that we can think of as something like a racetrack in which the orbits of the planets are mainly confined.”
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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