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  I hope this is the way the Universe makes contact...

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  Wes said on Feb 21, 2010 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  A Scientist Who Can Write a Novel

  The late Carl Sagan was as adept at writing for the masses as he was teaching and discovering the wonders of the universe. Sagan's hero is a young, strong-willed female scientist (protrayed beautifully by Jody Foster in the movie)who not only wants contact with an alien race but wants to be that con ... (continue)

  The late Carl Sagan was as adept at writing for the masses as he was teaching and discovering the wonders of the universe. Sagan's hero is a young, strong-willed female scientist (protrayed beautifully by Jody Foster in the movie)who not only wants contact with an alien race but wants to be that contact herself! This is not "Alien Spidermen Chew Up Memphis," but is a serious look into how contact may one day come about and what it will mean to our planet!

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  Woodenwiz said on Feb 1, 2010 | Add your feedback

• A science fiction novel by the most influential nonfiction writer in my early teens. It's a good, smart story but like all of Sagan's books there's clearly also a gentle argument for secularism and a life devoted to science.

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  Leebeck said on Feb 29, 2008 about the Mass Market Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  2001 a space odessy
  close encounter of the 3 kind
  contact
  these are my most favorite monumental SF.

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  Wutaichi2 said on Oct 1, 2007 about the Mass Market Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Hardcover 352 Pages
• ISBN-10: 1568654243
• ISBN-13: 9781568654249
• Publisher: Doubleday Books
• Pub date: Aug 01, 1997
• Also available as: Mass Market Paperback, Paperback, Audio Cassette, School & Library Binding, Unbound and Others
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