Name: Contact
Author: Carl Sagan
ISBN: 9780099469506

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SAGAN, Carl

Contact

1985

1. Science Fiction

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Carl Sagan Contact (1985) Overview The only novel Carl Sagan ever wrote, and the one first-contact story in the library written by someone who actually ran the search. Ellie Arroway, director of Project Argus in the New Mexico desert, picks up a signal from the star Vega: prime numbers, then — layered beneath them like writing under writing on a used parchment — Hitler’s opening of the 1936 Olympics played back to its senders, then thirty-one thousand pages of instructions for building a Machine with five seats. The book opens…

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Accession:FL-0114

ISBN-13:9780099469506

Published:1985

Language:en

Shelved under:Science Fiction

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