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| Title | : | Contact |
| Author | : | Carl Sagan |
| Book Format | : | Mass Market Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 580 pages |
| Published | : | August 28th 1997 by Pocket (first published September 1985) |
| Categories | : | Science Fiction. Fiction. Science Fiction Fantasy. Classics. Space. Novels. Fantasy |
Carl Sagan
Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 580 pages Rating: 4.14 | 115381 Users | 2933 Reviews
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At first it seemed impossible - a radio signal that came not from Earth but from far beyond the nearest stars. But then the signal was translated, and what had been impossible became terrifying. For the signal contains the information to build a Machine that can travel to the stars. A Machine that can take a human to meet those that sent the message. They are eager to meet us: they have been watching and waiting for a long time. And now they will judge.Particularize Books Concering Contact
| Original Title: | Contact |
| ISBN: | 2266079999 (ISBN13: 9782266079990) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Ellie Arroway |
| Setting: | Wyoming(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Locus Award for Best First Novel (1986) |
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I was surprised by how similar the original story was to the movie, as I had heard they butchered it. Not so. The only changes of any weight were in Ellie's relationships to the other major characters, and the removal of dated material relating to the Soviet Union.Sagan's forte is definitely in non-fiction science popularization, and it is on display even in this work of fiction, where I'm sorry to say, it doesn't make for particularly good storytelling.I was not surprised by the book's greatestA smart story crafted by a real space science guru WE CAN'T BE ALONE The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space.When I read this book, back then in 1997, I did it like a couple of months before of being able to watch the film adaptation. (And I am truly glad that I was able to get the movie in blu-ray, a few months ago in this year, 2014))This is truly great novel and it's written by one of the most respected scientist in the field about science of
Contact! Contact? NoTo make a long story short: this is probably an excellent book, but I failed to make contact, to connect to the characters. Feeling sorry about that, I decided to read Sagans nonfiction instead, to give him another chance.The problem I had with the novel was similar to my experience with 2001: A Space Odyssey, but on a bigger scale. I have no doubt that Sagans visions and ideas on extraterrestrial lifeforms are much more erudite than other science fiction I have read, where
As far as I know Contact is Carl Sagan's only novel. This makes him almost the Harper Lee of sci-fi (though he did write boatloads of sci-fact books). Not being much of a nonfiction reader this is my first encounter with Carl Sagan's writing, I already feel like it is a shame that he only wrote the one novel; though I am sure the world is more than compensated by his other output.Contact piqued my interest immediately with a vivid portrayal of Ellie Arrowway, a two years old genius, figuring
I was quite shocked when I saw the movie version, and discovered that they had twisted the message 180 degrees. In the book, the heroine meets the aliens and is told that they have indisputable proof that the Universe was created by a Higher Power. When she returns to Earth, she has no immediate way to support her story - but she has been given enough of a clue that she knows how to find objective evidence, which she duly does. She also makes another surprising discovery.In the movie, she comes
Sagan was a visionary beyond time. He understood the beauty of the universe by the laws of physics and how everything converged for them. And how human beings are part of this vast scenario, perhaps the only ones for whom the cosmos exists.He continues with this idea in Contact, although this is a work of fiction, more specifically, of science fiction. This is a science fiction of a different genre without laser beams or flying saucers or little green men.Eleanor (Ellie) Arroway is a special
'Contact' deserved the Locus Award it won for Best First Novel in 1986. Unfortunately, it is the only piece of fiction Carl Sagan wrote. It, however, is not the only book he wrote. Sagan wrote several works of non-fiction including 'Demon Haunted World.' which is great. As an astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, and author he created many works that popularized and made science accessible to the general public. With 'Contact,' you do not have to question whether the
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