Even at this moment when anyone would be forgiven for turning away from the reality of our situation, Carl was unflinching. For Carl, what mattered most was what was true, not merely what would make us feel better. His wife gives the following account of her husband in his last moments in the epilogue of Sagen’s last book Billions and Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium: “Contrary to the fantasies of the fundamentalists, there was no deathbed conversion, no last minute refuge taken in a comforting vision of a heaven or an afterlife. At the time, Sagan was struggling with bone cancer and two years before his film would be seen the theaters, he lost the battle and passed away. A book by the same title came out in 1980 and was on the New York Times Bestseller List for seven weeks.Ĭo-Producer with his wife, Ann Druyan, Sagan turned his popular novel Contact into a major motion picture of the same name which starred Jodie Foster and Matthew McConaughey in 1977. The series was watched by 500 million people in 60 countries. Sagan produced and starred in the PBS series, Cosmos, which won Emmy and Peabody awards and brought the concepts of science into the living rooms of everyday people. His other books include Contact (1985), Pale Blue Dot (1995), and The Demon-Haunted World: Science As a Candle in the Dark (1996). He was a co-founder and President of the Planetary Society, a one hundred thousand strong organization that is the largest space interest group in the world.Īn author or co-author of twenty books, including The Dragons of Eden (1977) which won a Pulitzer. For twelve years, he was the editor-in-chief of Icarus, the leading professional journal devoted to planetary research. As a scientist trained in both astronomy and biology, he has made large contributions in the study of planetary atmospheres, surfaces and the history of the Earth. Sagan received many prestigious awards in his field of study. He would go on to take a leading role in NASA’s Mariner, Viking, Voyager, and Galileo expeditions to other planets.ĭr. He became a professor of astronomy and space sciences as well as a director of the Laboratory for Planetary Studies at Cornell University. He earned bachelor and master’s degrees at Cornell and gained a double doctorate at the University of Chicago in 1960. Carl Sagan was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1934. Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group ISBN: 9780356518848 Number of pages: 416 Weight: 320 g Dimensions: 198 x 126 x 30 mm You may also be interested in.Locus Award for Best First Novel in 1986.ĭr. make Contact an exciting adventure' Publishers Weekly 'Sagan's informed and dramatically enacted speculations into the mysteries of the universe. 'The range and depth of ideas is quite uncommon' New York Times Book Review 'An astonishingly exciting, precise and involved book' Sydney Sunday Telegraph 'Stunning and satisfying' Los Angeles Times They are eager to meet us: they have been watching and waiting for a long time. A Machine that can take a human to meet those that sent the message. But then the signal was translated, and what had been impossible became terrifying.įor the signal contains the information to build a Machine that can travel to the stars. THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING CLASSIC NOVEL OF FIRST CONTACTĪt first it seemed impossible - a radio signal that came not from Earth but from far beyond the nearest stars.
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