Contact

a novel

mass market paperback, 434 páginas

Idioma English

Publicado el 1 de Julio de 1997 por Pocket Books.

ISBN:
978-0-671-00410-1
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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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La radioastronomía es divertida

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Review of 'Contact' on 'Storygraph'

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I am a huge fan of Carl Sagan and somehow I haven't read this book before. I have seen the movie probably in the beginning of 2000 but I really didn't remember the details of the story so I decided to finally read the book and forget the movie.

I love the idea of this book! And, of course, Dr. Ellie Arroway, the scientist genius that built her way up to being the director of “Project Argus”, a radio telescope institute for research into SETI (“search for extraterrestrial intelligence”). The mix of real scientific research and science fiction is done brilliantly, making us wonder why we haven't received any signal from space yet? It is very plausible. Of course, SETI is a real program that still exists but we haven't any search results after more than 50 years.

Although the book was written in the 80's, with a Cold War …

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Temas

  • Popular astronomy
  • Science Fiction - General
  • Fiction
  • Fiction - Science Fiction
  • Movie/Tv Tie-Ins
  • Fiction / General