The hardcover edition has the cover that I most associate with Sagan’s book, and I love it because it’s the OG. The Book Club Edition and Hardcover Cover Looks like the beginning of a Star Wars flick. Because the movie was made when McConaughey was still all right all right all right, this audiobook (and the paperbacks with the same cover) may add a pretty factor to your Sagan collection. Jodie Foster and Matthew McConaughey’s movie arguably did justice to Carl Sagan’s interstellar epic, though it emphasized the religion aspects more and decommissioned the book’s woman president in favor of the then-current president, Bill Clinton. Its image is nebulous and dreamy, and so pretty that I’m almost tempted to purchase a back-up copy for my library. Gallery Books is issuing this reprint paperback edition of Carl Sagan’s classic on February 26, 2019. Gallery Books is about to issue a beautiful new paperback reprint, and in preparation for that, we thought it would be fun to look back on some of the other covers that the text has come into contact with (sorry, had to) before. It is quietly feminist, openly hopeful, and bears repeat reading-it will induce awe each and every time. Getting there will require political and international finagling and tangling with people who don’t want humans to reach beyond the bounds of Earth, but it’s all worth it if the journey proffers any of the answers that Ellie, and humanity, desperately needs.Ĭarl Sagan’s classic novel Contact is wonderful. She also believes that the universe is teeming with other living beings-otherwise, isn’t it rather a grand waste of space? This belief propels her to devote her career to searching for signals from the stars.Įllie is ostracized from scientific communities because of her odd focus, but her devotion pays off when she does pick up a signal and finds that it’s transmitting plans for a mysterious machine that appears designed to transport one traveler elsewhere. Definitely a journey to enjoy.Ellie Arroway believes in science, not deities. Overall, a great read that opens minds to science and out of this world possibilities. I don't know if his answers are realistic, that's up to you to decide but hopefully you will enjoy the journey that helps you get to that point and if you weren't before, perhaps you will also be captivated by the resplendence of the stars. What about our safety, our future, our beliefs? Would the world unite? Would the populace want trillions to be spent on a machine specified by a voice from space, when they don't know what it will do or if it will even work and when millions of people are in need? Carl Sagan looks at these questions. The Kindle didn't let me down and even though I had to pause to look words up it didn't detract from the story because I felt I was also learning something.īeyond the science, the story encourages you to condider what first contact would mean. I was really surprised to find all the words I was unfamilar with were actually in the dictionary, as some of the words seemed quite obscure. I don't claim to always understand what I'm reading but this is where a Kindle e-book trumps a real book, as a dictionary and Wikipedia are at your fingertips. I love reading about space, engineering, physics, any science really. I really enjoyed the film and to the best of my memory it seems the film was true to the book but missed out the more complicated science.
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