false<![CDATA[Contact]]>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170592651m/61666.jpg6166628It 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 <I>Contact</I>, 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 <I>Contact</I> a modern sci-fi classic.2416056book191985Contacttotal:4588|5:1405|4:1823|3:1088|2:228|1:44|458818081583035035falsefalseThu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1987Wed Jul 02 09:17:55 -0700 2008Wed Jul 02 09:17:55 -0700 2008 The heroine makes this comment about 2/3 of the way through this novel. She is trying to get across the idea that, if your god cannot encompass the knowlege which humans have so laboriously amassed over the millenia (which is only about two teaspoons w...more...]]>
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Contact we learn Carl Sagan's speculative but quite plausible answer to the first question. The bulk of the book concerns his answers ...more...]]>
42falsefalseFri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1988Sun Sep 09 16:51:17 -0700 2007Sun Sep 09 17:49:52 -0700 2007 I liked Sagan and his "billions and billions" charm. I am sorry he is no longer sharing planet earth with us. As with all of his publications, Contact was well written, entertaining & educational. However, it left me wondering if Sagan truly was an agn...more...]]>
32falsefalseSun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007Sun Jul 15 02:03:49 -0700 2007Sat Aug 04 21:21:59 -0700 2007 (post) I quite liked Contact, though it was, especially toward the end, very different from what I expected. I thoug...more...]]>
51falsefalseSat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2001Thu Jun 28 22:20:29 -0700 2007Thu Jun 28 22:40:33 -0700 2007 ANYWAY, this is one of my all-time favorite books Ever. I think I saw the movie first and despite not really liking it, my interest was piqued by the book... and a big book, t...more...]]>
31falsefalseFri Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006Tue Mar 13 22:10:38 -0700 2007Tue Mar 13 22:13:12 -0700 2007 I remember being fascinated reading Sagan's earlier work Cosmos. Flying past the planets of our solar system, a chapter at a time, had excited me as it did the entire world.
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A few weeks ago I watched "Contact", the movie, again. Whilst discussing the movie with a friend I was made aware of the fact that the encounter between the aliens and the human race went down differently in the book. Intrigued I read the book. Boy! Was I in for a surprise. Carl Sagan...more...]]>
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Contact was Carl Sagan's attempt to reconcile science and religion. As with most books, the book is richer than the movie based on it. Ellie Arroway, an astronomer working on the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), heads the effort to decipher the first message received from outer space...more...]]>
20falsefalseSat Sep 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009Sun Aug 02 20:44:42 -0700 2009Mon Sep 28 14:54:25 -0700 2009 The beginning of the book does a great job showing how interested she is...more...]]>
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