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Carl Sagan

  • 20-09-2005 10:31AM
    #1
    Dades
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,644 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Just finished another of his books: Billions and Billions. (The end of which, as his last book, was quite moving).

    Have read some of his others, and am determined to read them all - and get around to a biography too.
    Cosmos was just amazing, and for me Contact is one of the greatest SF novels.

    Anyone else read anything by the great man?

    :)
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  • #2
    dudara
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,518 ✭✭✭✭dudara


    Just "Contact" which is a very good sci-fi novel indeed. Any recommendations for a second book to read?


  • #3
    pukey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 93 ✭✭pukey


    read cosmos a while back. pretty good. kind of like brysons " a short history.." except written way before it. well worth reading


  • #4
    Dades
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,644 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades


    dudara wrote:
    Just "Contact" which is a very good sci-fi novel indeed. Any recommendations for a second book to read?
    AFAIK that's his only fiction novel, but like Pukey I'd recommend Cosmos - it's perhaps his most "influential" book.

    I never finished Brysons "A short history..." Got about 2/3rds through it and realised I was retaining nothing. Just too much information trying to get in at once I reckon! Sagan has a more comfortable style that is easier to stick with.


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