num_pages: 431
description: It is December 1999, the dawn of the millennium, and a team of international scientists is poised for the most fantastic adventure in human history. After years of scanning the galaxy for signs of somebody or something else, this team believes they've found a message from an intelligent source--and they travel deep into space to meet it. Pulitzer Prize winner Carl Sagan injects Contact, his prophetic adventure story, with scientific details that make it utterly believable. It is a Cold War era novel that parlays the nuclear paranoia of the time into exquisitely wrought tension among the various countries involved. Sagan meditates on science, religion, and government--the elements that define society--and looks to their impact on and role in the future. His ability to pack an exciting read with such rich content is an unusual talent that makes Contact a modern sci-fi classic.
language: English
title: Contact
titlecomplete: Contact
characters: Michael Kitz, Theodore Arroway, Kenneth "Ken" der Heer, John Staughton, Xi, Eda Abonneta, Sol R. Hadden, Willie, Billy Jo Rankin, Peter Valerian, Dr. Eleanor "Ellie" Arroway, Elli Sukhavati, Dr. David Drumlin, Vasili  "Vaygay" Gregorovitš Lunatšarski, Palmer Joss
genres: Fiction, Classics, Astronomy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Science Fiction, Aliens, Space, Audiobook, Fantasy, Novels
ratings_count: 139670
places: Paris, Wyoming, Washington, D.C., New Mexico
awards: awardedAt: 504950400000
name: Locus Award
category: Best First Novel
publisher: Arrow Books Ltd