ContactPulitzer Prize-winning author and astronomer Carl Sagan imagines the greatest adventure of all—the discovery of an advanced civilization in the depths of space. In December of 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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White Noise | 34 |
Prime Numbers | 51 |
Decryption Algorithm | 64 |
Palimpsest | 77 |
The Ethanol in W3 | 93 |
Harmonic Oscillator | 198 |
Erbium Dowel | 218 |
The Elders of Ozone | 239 |
The Dream of the Ants | 254 |
Superunification | 266 |
THE GALAXY | 279 |
Naked Singularity | 281 |
Grand Central Station | 295 |
Random Access | 107 |
The Numinous | 123 |
THE MACHINE | 133 |
Precession of the Equinoxes | 135 |
The World Message Consortium | 150 |
The OneDelta Isomer | 169 |
Babylon | 181 |
Causality | 322 |
Gilgamesh | 339 |
Reprogramming | 345 |
The Artists Signature | 365 |
Authors Note | 373 |
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