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Contact : a novel / Carl Sagan.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: New York : Simon and Schuster, ©1985.Description: 432 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0671434225
  • 9780671434229
  • 0671004107
  • 9780671004101
  • 1568654243
  • 9781568654249
  • 0671434004
  • 9780671434007
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 813/.54 19
LOC classification:
  • PS3569.A287 C6 1985
Available additional physical forms:
  • Also issued online.
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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Book 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.

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