Contact: A Novel"[A novel about] humanity's first encounter with other intelligent beings. ... At its centre is a brilliant scientist, Eleanor Arroway ... It is she who is instrumental in decoding the Message [from the vicinity of the star Vega] - and in persuading world leaders not to treat it as a threat - she who finds her own life changed by the immense challenge of responding to the Message; she who finally journeys out to experience, in circumstances at once profoundly religious and scientific, the most fateful encounter in human history."--Jacket |
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User Review - wanderlustlover - LibraryThingI'm giving this one, in all honesty, something like a 3.7. It's well enough written it shouldn't be a three and yet not compelling enough to deserve a four. And yet I truly enjoyed it. It's been a ... Read full review
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User Review - macleod73 - LibraryThingWhat a book. For someone with a vast intellect as Sagan to be able to write a book that is so approachable by all is a feat unto itself. He writes with a wonder that was visible during the "Cosmos ... Read full review
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| Title | Contact: A Novel |
| Author | Carl Sagan |
| Edition | large print |
| Publisher | Thorndike Press, 1985 |
| ISBN | 089621687X, 9780896216877 |
| Length | 664 pages |
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