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Books like Contact
Contact by Carl Sagan is about science and faith, first contact, political power. If that's what drew you in, here are 6 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- Cosmos
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Carl Sagan · Science
Cosmos is Carl Sagan's attempt to tell the full story of the universe and humanity's place in it — from the Big Bang to the origins of life to the rise of science as a way of knowing.
Read the summary → - Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
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Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
Carl Sagan · Science
Pale Blue Dot takes its title from a photograph taken by Voyager 1 in 1990, as it left the solar system, at Sagan's request.
Read the summary → - A Brief History of Time
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Stephen Hawking · Science
A Brief History of Time is Stephen Hawking's attempt to explain the biggest questions in physics — where the universe came from, how it behaves, and where it might be going — to readers with no scientific training.
Read the summary → - The Demon-Haunted World
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Carl Sagan · Science
The Demon-Haunted World is Carl Sagan's argument that science is not just a body of knowledge but a way of thinking — one that humanity needs badly and uses far too rarely.
Read the summary → - Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
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Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
Neil deGrasse Tyson · Science
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry is Neil deGrasse Tyson's deliberately compact introduction to the biggest ideas in modern astrophysics.
Read the summary → - 2001: A Space Odyssey
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Arthur C. Clarke · Science fiction
2001: A Space Odyssey begins with prehistoric man-apes encountering a featureless black monolith that somehow catalyzes their cognitive leap from prey to hunter.
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