Hardcover Book, Contact, Carl Sagan, Science Fiction, Novel, Literature, Space Exploration

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Hardcover Book, Contact, Carl Sagan, Science Fiction, Novel, Literature, Space Exploration

A hardcover book titled Contact by Carl Sagan. 1985 First Editon 7th Printing.

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.

Carl Edward Sagan (1934 – 1996) was an American astronomer, planetary scientist, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, and science communicator. His best-known scientific contribution is research on extraterrestrial life, including experimental demonstration of the production of amino acids from basic chemicals by radiation. Sagan assembled the first physical messages sent into space, the Pioneer plaque and the Voyager Golden Record, universal messages that could potentially be understood by any extraterrestrial intelligence that might find them. Sagan argued the hypothesis, accepted since, that the high surface temperatures of Venus can be attributed to, and calculated using, the greenhouse effect.

Size:
9½ inches in length
6½ inches in width
432 pages
Published by Simon and Schuster -- 1985 -- First Editon 7th Printing

This book is Very Good Condition. The binding is tight, and the pages are clean and unmarked. The cover has no bent corners and shows little sign of shelf wear. The dust cover is in very good condition with no rips or tears.

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