Contact : a novel / Carl Sagan.
Publication details: New York : Simon and Schuster, ©1985.Description: 432 pages ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0671434225
- 9780671434229
- 0671004107
- 9780671004101
- 1568654243
- 9781568654249
- 0671434004
- 9780671434007
- 813/.54 19
- PS3569.A287 C6 1985
- Also issued online.
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | Main Library Science Fiction | F SAGAN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 31744003977788 |
Novel.
Jacket painting by Jon Lomberg.
Also issued online.
Beautiful astrophysicist Rebecca Blake deciphers long-awaited signals from space, persuades world leaders to construct a machine that many consider a Trojan Horse, and journeys into space for an epochal encounter.
Part I. The message: Transcendental numbers -- Coherent light -- White noise -- Prime Numbers -- Decryption Algorithm -- Palimpsest -- The ethanol in W-3 -- Random access -- The Numinous -- part II. The machine: Presession of the Equinoxes -- The world message consortium -- The one-delta isomer -- Babylon -- Harmonic oscillator -- Erbioum dowel -- The elders of ozone -- The dream of the ants -- Superunification -- part III. The galaxy: Naked singularity -- Grand Central Station -- Causality -- Gilgamesh -- Reprogramming -- The artist's signature.