Contact: A NovelSimon and Schuster, 1985 - 432 pages In December, 1999, a multinational team journeys out to the stars, to the most awesome encounter in human history. Who -- or what -- is out there? In "Cosmos," Carl Sagan explained the universe. In "Contact," he predicts its future -- and our own. |
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THE MESSAGE | 1 |
Transcendental Numbers | 3 |
Coherent Light | 13 |
Copyright | |
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