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Contact (novel)
Basis for the Jodie Foster movie
By Carl Sagan
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434 Pages, Mass-Market Paperback
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Date: 1985
ISBN: 0-671-00410-7
Country of Origin: USA
Added to Catalog: 12/16/96
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Carl Sagan's first novel, about humanity's
contact with an extra-terrestrial civilization in the late 1990s.
(It could happen!)
Our appreciation for Contact has grown since the release
of the dim-witted ET flick Independence Day.
The older Sagan may be a stuffy PBS-sponsored
prima donna, but this book was
written in 1985 when he seemed more open to the
idea of aliens giving a damn about our puny little planet.
The political climate Sagan envisioned may seem dated
-- world leaders conferring with the United Nations, Ha, Ha
-- but the story is still fairly deep.
Sagan's aliens don't want to steal our women, decimate our
planet or even be taken to our leader.
They are god-like creatures without physical
form, whose arrival at the end is anti-climactic.
This novel is not about aliens but about humans trying to come to grips
with them -- which of course is the real issue in ufology.
Most of the conflicts take place on earth, as scientists
try to explain their complex evidence
to the same sort of average clods
who made Independence Day a hit.
-- Glenn Campbell
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Table of Contents
- Author's note
- PART I THE MESSAGE
- CHAPTER 1 Transcendental Numbers
- CHAPTER 2 Coherent Light
- CHAPTER 3 White Noise
- CHAPTER 4 Prime Numbers
- CHAPTER 5 Decryption Algorithm
- CHAPTER 6 Palimpsest
- CHAPTER 7 The Ethanol in W-3
- CHAPTER 8 Random Access
- CHAPTER 9 The Numinous
- PART II THE MACHINE
- CHAPTER 1O Precession of the Equinoxes
- CHAPTER 11 The World Message Consortium
- CHAPTER 12 The One-Delta Isomer
- CHAPTER 13 Babylon
- CHAPTER 14 Harmonic Oscillator
- CHAPTER 15 Erbium Dowel
- CHAPTER 16 The Elders of Ozone
- CHAPTER 17 The Dream of the Ants
- CHAPTER 18 Superunification
- PART III THE GALAXY
- CHAPTER 19 Naked Singularity
- CHAPTER 20 Grand Central Station
- CHAPTER 21 Causality
- CHAPTER 22 Gilgamesh
- CHAPTER 23 Reprogramming
- CHAPTER 24 The Artist's Signature
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About the Author
CARL SAGAN, the distinguished astronomer, is the most widely read
scientist in the world today. Cosmos, first published in 1980,
is the best-selling science book ever published in the English language.
The accompanying Peabody and Emmy Award-winning television series
was seen in 60 countries. His other books include The Dragons of
Eden, awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1978, Broca's Brain,
and (with Ann Druyan) the recent bestseller, Comet.
Dr. Sagan has been deeply involved in spacecraft exploration of the
planets and in the radio search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
His numerous awards include the NASA Medals for Exceptional Scientific
Achievement and for Distinguished Public Service, the John F. Kennedy
Astronautics Award, the Honda Prize, and the Joseph Priestley Award
"for distinguished contributions to the welfare of Mankind." He has
also recently received the annual Awards for Public Service of the
Federation of American Scientists and of Physicians for Social Responsibility.
Dr. Sagan is the David Duncan Professor of Astronomy and Space Sciences
at Cornell University, where he also serves as Director of the Laboratory
for Planetary Studies at the Center for Radiophysics and Space Research.
-- From the Publisher
Promotional Material from the Publisher
"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.... Sagan's informed and dramatically
enacted speculations into the mysteries of the universe . . . make
CONTACT an exciting adventure." - Publishers Weekly
CONTACT
"THE MOST EAGERLY AWAITED FICTION DEBUT OF THE SEASON . . . Sagan
has produced a joyous, optimistic paean of love about the future of
mankind.... THOROUGHLY ENGROSSING." - Philadelphia Inquirer
"CONTACT [deals] with issues... worth pondering... The range and depth
of ideas is quite uncommon." - The New York Times Book Review
"Imaginative flair ... The Sagan wit is on full display... CONTACT
jabs at commercial civilization, nationalism, sexism..." - The
Wall Street Journal
"CONTACT WILL AMAZE AND DELIGHT YOU, AND MAKE YOU THINK. IT WILL ALSO
MAKE YOU PROUD AND HAPPY TO BE ALIVE." - The Baltimore Sun
"A call for reconcilliation between science and religion... on the
common ground of reverence for the magnificence of the universe...
As uplifting as a trip to the stars." - Wilmington News-Journal
"LIKE A GOOD MYSTERY, CONTACT KEEPS US CURIOUS TO THE END. INGENIOUS
AND SATISFYING." - Newsweek
"Sagan's continuing compelling plea that we do not destroy the ineffable
loveliness of life on this planet is present in every scene and phrase
of CONTACT... It is pleasurable and reassuring to read a popular author
in whom the observable and scientifically imagined universe inspires
excitement, humor, love, awe." - Newsday
"If there is a God and He isn't in hiding, He will have left an unambiguous
message. What will the message look like? Sagan's answer is STUNNING
AND SATISFYING." - Los Angeles Times
"Goes to the very core of human experience... Sagan has made CONTACT
with both the mind and the heart." - Louisville Courier-Journal
"The pages literally shimmer when Sagan teaches us about ... the search
for intelligence in the universe.... This is Carl Sagan's attempt
to make contact with us." - Houston Chronicle
"GRAND AND VIVID . . . A LOT OF FUN." - The Village Voice
"WITH TERRESTRIALS LIKE CARL SAGAN, WHO NEEDS EXTRAS?" - Time
"SAGAN EMERGES AS A MASTER STORYTELLER" - The Christian Science
monitor
"BRILLIANT... A FIRST-CLASS ADVENTURE." - Sacramento Bee
"Lyrical seductive, good for the soul . . . As tireless proponent
of man's rational, intellectual heritage, Sagan is without peer."
- Oakland Tribune
"Mindboggling." - Fort Worth News Tribune
"Provocative and often very funny." - Detroit Free Press
"Irresistible." - Seattle Times-Post Intelligencer
Truly gripping." - Arkansas Gazette
"AN ABUNDANCE OF RICHES." - Atlanta Journal and Constitution
"A SPELLBINDER . . . STORYTELLING GENIUS ABOUNDING... YOU CAN'T PUT
CONTACT DOWN." - Cincinnati Inquirer
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