The cosmic connection : an extraterrestrial perspective / by Carl Sagan ; Produced by Jerome Agel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sagan, Carl, 1934-1996.

Contributor:

Lomberg, Jon, 1948- illustrator.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Mark B. Adams Science Fiction Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Life on other planets.

Life--Origin.

Life.

Genre:

Science fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Adams, Mark B. (donor) (Adams Collection copy)

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xiii, 274 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Garden City, N.Y. : Anchor Press, 1973.

Summary:

Discusses practical applications of astronomy, various aspects of our solar system, and the possibility of extraterrestrial intelligence.

Contents:

I. Cosmic perspectives : 1. A transitional animal

2. The unicorn of Cetus

3. A message from earth

4. A message to earth

5. Experiments in utopias

6. Chauvinism

7. Space exploration as a human enterprise: the scientific interest

8. Space exploration as a human enterprise: the public interest

9. Space exploration as a human enterprise: the historical interest

II. The solar system : 10. On teaching the first grade

11. "The ancient and legendary gods of old"

12. The Venus detective story

13. Venus is Hell

14. Science and "intelligence"

15. The moons of Barsoom

16. The mountains of Mars: observations from earth

17. The mountains of Mars: observations from space

18. The canals of mars

19. The lost pictures of mars

20. The Ice Age and the cauldron

21. Beginnings and ends of the earth

22. Terraforming the planets

23. The exploration and utilization of the solar system

III. Beyond the solar system : 24. Some of my best friends are dolphins

25. "Hello, central casting? Send me twenty extraterrestrials"

26. The cosmic connection

27. Extraterrestrial life: an idea whose time has come

28. Has the earth been visited?

29. A search strategy for detecting extraterrestrial intelligence

30. If we succeed

31. Cables, drums, and seashells

32. The night freight to the stars

33. Astroengineering

34. Twenty questions: a classification of cosmic civilizations

35. Galactic cultural exchanges

36. A passage to elsewhen

37. Starfolk: a fable

38. Starfolk: a future

39. Starfolk: the cosmic Cheshire cats.

Notes:

Cover painting: Jon Lomberg.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

Adams Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Dr. Mark B. Adams.

Adams Collection copy has dustjacket.

Cited in:

Internet Speculative Fiction Database, 246101

OCLC:

756158