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I was surprised to actually enjoy this book. This is a book by the scientist/TV star Carl Sagan. He wrote this for TV and it was published in 1985. A book that addressed many issues still present; the struggle of science, politics, religion and equity. The book addresses issues between religion and science s well as other items of globalism. The whole experience of traveling via machine through various passages, talking with someone she had loved in life and then not being able to prove any of i
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Astronomers begin receiving radio signals from outer space that are clearly being sent by other intelligent life forms. Can the international scientific community overcome national interests and fears of alien life forms to follow the instructions that they're receiving and make contact?
Not what I was expecting - this plods along so slowly that I used it as a guaranteed way to get back to sleep when insomnia hit. But Carl Sagan was mainly a non-fiction writer, and this was his first novel, so th ...more
Not what I was expecting - this plods along so slowly that I used it as a guaranteed way to get back to sleep when insomnia hit. But Carl Sagan was mainly a non-fiction writer, and this was his first novel, so th ...more
Sep 21, 2016
Diane
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it was amazing
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Mar 02, 2016
Sorobai
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Mar 19, 2017
Kathy Jo
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Oct 01, 2017
Elena
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Dec 10, 2017
Daria Zeoli
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Aug 20, 2018
Paula S
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