Title Contact : a novel / Carl Sagan.

Publication Info.	New York : Simon and Schuster, [1985]
	©1985

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Description	432 pages ; 25 cm
Note	Novel.
	Jacket painting by Jon Lomberg.
Form	Also issued online.
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.
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.
Subject	Women scientists -- Fiction.
	Life on other planets -- Fiction.
	Interstellar communication -- Fiction.
	Radio astronomy -- Fiction.
	Interstellar communication. (OCoLC)fst00977539
	Life on other planets. (OCoLC)fst00998301
	Radio astronomy. (OCoLC)fst01087196
	Women scientists. (OCoLC)fst01178507
	Adult Science Fiction.
Indexed Term	Science fiction
Genre/Form	Science fiction (OCoLC)fst01726489
	Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
	Science fiction.
	Science fiction.
Added Author	Lomberg, Jon, 1948- illustrator.
Other Form:	Online version: Sagan, Carl, 1934-1996. Contact. New York : Simon and Schuster, ©1985 (OCoLC)564575483
ISBN	0671434004
	9780671434007
	0671701800 (pbk.)
	9780671701802 (pbk.)

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