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SUMMARY:Contact - Carl Sagan - The first in our 2017 CONTACT season
DESCRIPTION:(http://www.sciencefictionbookclub.org/pages/Contact:_Exploring
 _our_greatest_hope\,_and_fear/)This novel is part of the Science Fiction B
 ook Club`s 2017 season. Where we will explore our greatest hope\, and fear
 . Contact.\n\nIt is December 1999\, the dawn of the millennium\, and a tea
 m of international scientists is poised for the most fantastic adventure i
 n human history. After years of scanning the galaxy for signs of somebody 
 or something else\, this team believes they`ve found a message from an int
 elligent source--and they travel deep into space to meet it. Pulitzer Priz
 e winner Carl Sagan injects Contact\, his prophetic adventure story\, with
  scientific details that make it utterly believable. It is a Cold War era 
 novel that parlays the nuclear paranoia of the time into exquisitely wroug
 ht tension among the various countries involved. Sagan meditates on scienc
 e\, religion and government--the elements that define society--and looks t
 o their impact on and role in the future. His ability to pack an exciting 
 read with such rich content is an unusual talent that makes Contact a mode
 rn sci-fi classic. --\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDazzling...Contact becomes the greatest
  adventure of all time. ( ASSOCIATED PRESS)\n\nImaginative flair...The Sag
 an wit on full display...Contact jabs at commericalism\, nationalism\, sex
 ism ... THE WALL STREET JOURNAL\n\nContact [deals] with issues... worth po
 ndering... The range and depth of ideas is quite uncommon ( The New York T
 imes Book Review)\n\nA masterly piece of work blending adroit characterisa
 tion and flights of scientific fancy that spring from today`s fact ( Belfa
 st Telegraph)\n\nA feast of marvels ( San Francisco Chronicle)\n\nWho coul
 d be better qualified than the author of the highly successful Cosmos to t
 urn the possibility of extra-terrestrial intelligence\, and humankind`s fi
 rst contact with it\, into imaginative reality? This is precisely what Sag
 an does in this eagerly awaited and\, as it turns out\, engrossing first n
 ovel... Sagan`s informed and dramatically enacted speculations into the my
 steries of the universe... make Contact an exciting adventure ( Publishers
  Weekly)\n\nLike a good mystery\, Contact keeps us curious to the end... I
 ngenious and satisfying ( Newsweek)\n\nA splendid story whose appeal is un
 iversal ( Yorkshire Post)\n\nSagan`s continuing compelling plea that we do
  not destroy the ineffable loveliness of life on this planet is present in
  every scene and phrase of Contact... It is pleasurable and reassuring to 
 read a popular author in whom the observable and scientifically imagined u
 niverse inspires excitement\, humour\, love\, awe ( Newsday)\n\nIf there i
 s a God and He isn`t hiding\, He will have left an unambiguous message. Wh
 at will the message look like? Sagan`s answer is stunning and satisfying (
  Los Angeles Times)\n\nGrand and vivid... a lot of fun ( The Village Voice
 )\n\nOne of the best science fiction stories about contact with intelligen
 t beings ever written. Sagan calls on his scientific knowledge to garnish 
 realistically a devastatingly credible account of how contact could be mad
 e ( Sydney Daily Telegraph)\n\nAn astonishingly exciting\, precise and inv
 olved book ( Sydney Sunday Telegraph)
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