Contact

Name: Contact
Brand: Simon & Schuster Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.22 (41 reviews)
Author: Carl Sagan
ISBN: 9781442353817

Author: Carl Sagan

Narrator: Laurel Lefkow

Unabridged: 14 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

Published: 02/21/2012

Categories: Fiction, Classic, Media Tie-in, Science Fiction

Synopsis

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Cosmos and renowned astronomer Carl Sagan’s international bestseller about the discovery of an advanced civilization in the depths of space remains the “greatest adventure of all time” (Associated Press).

The future is here…in an adventure of cosmic dimension. When a signal is discovered that seems to come from far beyond our solar system, a multinational team of scientists decides to find the source. What follows is an eye-opening journey out to the stars to the most awesome encounter in human history. Who—or what—is out there? Why are they watching us? And what do they want with us?

One of the best science fiction novels about communication with extraterrestrial intelligent beings, Contact is a “stunning and satisfying” (Los Angeles Times) classic.

About Carl Sagan

Carl Sagan was Professor of Astronomy and Space Sciences and Director of the Laboratory for Planetary Studies at Cornell University. He played a leading role in the Mariner, Viking, and Voyager spacecraft expeditions, for which he received the NASA medals for Exceptional Scientific Achievement. Dr. Sagan received the Pulitzer Prize and the highest awards of both the National Academy of Sciences and the National Science Foundation for his contributions to science, literature, education, and the preservation of the environment. His book Cosmos was the bestselling science book ever published in the English language, and his bestselling novel, Contact, was turned into a major motion picture.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Manny on March 16, 2022

I was quite shocked when I saw the movie version, and discovered that they had twisted the message 180 degrees. In the book, the heroine meets the aliens and is told that they have indisputable proof that the Universe was created by a Higher Power. When she returns to Earth, she has no immediate way......more

Goodreads review by Alejandro on December 26, 2014

A smart story crafted by a real space science guru WE CAN'T BE ALONE The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space. When I read this book, back then in 1997, I did it like a couple of months before of being able to watch the film adaptation. (And I am t......more

Goodreads review by Emily on May 20, 2018

This book is all about Vegans.... Just not the kind you're thinking about! (3.5) Interesting first contact with aliens but the writing was quite dry.......more

Goodreads review by Bradley on February 08, 2017

I really hate it when I lose reviews. Okay, take two. I was just reminiscing on my younger self's condemnation (or at least his valid annoyances at the plot holes and some of the straight story elements), or the fact that I was trying to compare this classic SF work with other classic SF works that I......more

Goodreads review by J.G. Keely on February 18, 2009

Sagan was a lucid and impassioned defender of rationality and clear thought. Unfortunately, his foray into fiction did little to increase the understanding of his philosophies, and much to muddy the waters of once clear thought. Inspired by Asimov and Heinlein, he decided that fiction was as good a......more