Urn:lcp:contact00saga_1:epub:1e91347d-77b7-48cd-bcdb-fe5f514dab1e Extramarc OhioLINK Library Catalog Foldoutcount 0 Identifier contact00saga_1 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t55f16n31 Invoice 11 Isbn 0671434004ĩ780671701802 Lccn 85014645 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 9.0 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.6 Ocr_module_version 0.0.13 Openlibrary OL7662645M Openlibrary_edition Throughout the story, Sagan intertwines complex mathematics with fiction, and through the knots in his story come hints of deep questions about the meaning of religion and spirituality, humanity, and social consciousness.Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 08:55:08.234273 Bookplateleaf 0010 Boxid IA1102324 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donorįriendsofthesanfranciscopubliclibrary External-identifier

Religious fundamentalists, scientists, and governments argue over whether to build it and, in the end, a multinational team is chosen to make the trip. It turns out that the message is more complex than initially realized it actually contains a blueprint for an advanced space traveling machine. The main character, astronomer Ellie Arroway, detects a signal from a nearby star, a repeating sequence of the first 261 prime numbers, which she deduces could only be sent from an intelligent civilization. Unsurprisingly, its overriding theme is that of extraterrestrial contact. The highly successful novel Contact, which was adapted for screen a year after Sagan died in 1996, was Sagan’s best-known foray into the world of fiction, bringing scientific principles to mainstream entertainment.

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