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Pros

Carl sagan is a scientist who knew more during his lifetime than i could ever hope to know in mine. The way sagan describes arroway in the books and her ideas feels more enjoyable to me as a scientist. I often use to refer to the hour angle of vega as... Read More

The last 25% of the book is well-paced and great. The truth of that resonates and gives the book its depth. For someone who only dipped his toes into novel-writing, it's a very compelling work.

Cons

The overwhelming good reviews that this book receives is probably because of the name attached to it. I love science - i study optical physics for a living - and this book is one of the most disappointing i have read to date. Pulling apart the pqges m... Read More

The book is very slow and, having already seen the movie, could not force myself to wade through more of the frequent diversions and sidetracks that occur in the beginning of the book. The outline of ideas & controversy is far clearer than contact... Read More

It's about as satisfying as * the top of your head against the inside of your car after you return the ice scraper to the glove compartment. The volume wildly fluctuates for no apparent reason. Aliens send blueprint design plans for a machine without ... Read More

It's too bad carl sagan couldn't have just written a fascinating sci-fi book without critiquing the word of god. There's rather pointless character backstories that should've been cut. Sagan and this book just isn't that.

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Quality

Well written with excellent character development, i've read this novel multiple times and never lost interest.

The scientific detail weaves through the plot and pulls the story together.

"what fermi was getting at is that if the universe is between 10 to 20 billion years(cosmologists hadn't gotten this number dow... Read More

Interesting subject and overall story line but often gets bogged down with details that encourages the reader to leave the book

Price

- excellent book at a great price.

Well, i recently, like a few weeks ago had another chance to buy an original hard cover version - for two dollars.

Shipping

This was a long time coming, and surprise, surprise, carl sagan delivers.

This book was delivered in a timely manner and was in decent shape.

Packaging/appearance

The book was received in perfect condition despite being 2nd hand!

It was a softcover, but original cover picture.

Competitiveness

Fermi's paradox comes from enrico fermi back in like 1950s.

I can't quite pin down why i didn't like the movie; but, as they say, "the book is better than the movie.

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This product had a total of 6,180 reviews as of our last analysis date on Oct 17 2024.