Carl Sagan

Carl Sagan, 1994

Carl Edward Sagan (1934-11-09 - 1996-12-20) was an American astronomer, science communicator, and author.

Personal

I first learned about Carl Sagan in high school when one of my teachers showed us an excerpt from Cosmos: A Personal Voyage. I thought his intonation was hilarious, but it was so memorable, it made me interested in what he was talking about. I has seen various clips from Cosmos later in school, sometimes on Nova, and much later on the Internet. I saw the film adaption of Contact not long after it came out, which I really enjoyed at the time, and that caused my to seek out the Cosmos series which I have since watched several times through. After finding Contact in hardcover for only a buck, I tried reading it and was surprised at how well-written it was. After that, I read several of Sagan's non-fiction books, and have enjoyed all of them.

Bibliography

If the rank is missing, I haven't yet read the book.

Title	Published	Own?	Rank	Rating
The Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective	1973-??-??
The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence	1977-??-??		6
Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science	1979-??-??
Cosmos	1981-??-??	US 1st edition, hardcover	5
The Cold and the Dark: The World After Nuclear War	1984-??-??
Contact	1985-09-??	US 1st edition, hardcover	2
Comet	1985-??-??
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors: A Search for Who We Are	1993-10-??
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space	1994-11-08		4
The Demon-Haunted World	1995-??-??	Paperback	1
Billions and Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death At the Brink of the Millennium	1997-??-??	US 1st edition, hardcover	3
The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God	2006-11-02

Filmography

Title	Publication Date	Rank
Cosmos: A Personal Voyage	1980-09-28	1
Contact	1997-07-11	2

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  Carl Sagan as a heavy metal logo.

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