The classic science fiction novel "Contact" is carl. Sagan's work.
Carl Sagan is a well-known American astronomer, physicist, and popular science writer.
As a science scientist, he researched and established a greenhouse model of Venus's atmosphere, led the design of the earth business card of the unmanned probe pioneer to the universe, and won the scientific achievement award issued by NASA many times; as a popular science worker, he not only won the Pulitzer Prize, the Asimov Science Prize, but even his self-written and self-directed popular science documentary "Universe" is also popular around the world.
He is a household name in the United States and around the world.
As Carr's only novel, Contact tells a wide audience the story of a superintelligent civilization that makes contact with earthlings.
In the book, Carl expresses his reflections on the direction of science, and the story has both scientific concepts and suspenseful plots, and the two are closely intertwined, giving readers an experience of the perfect combination of knowledge and imagination.
In my opinion, people who can write science fiction must be people with longings, great imaginations and full of yearning for the universe.
cal. Sagan is exactly that.
He has always had a positive attitude towards biological civilizations beyond the Earth.
He believed in existence and was willing to express humanity's friendliness to alien creatures.
This emotion is evident in the novel, so he takes a positive view of alien civilizations in the book, placing stories of contradictions and conspiracies within earthlings.
You may wonder, why did Carl Sagan create this long-form science fiction work? When did he start?
If one day, in the face of contact signals from aliens, what kind of attitude and reaction will humans have?
Is it support endorsement? Or deny the blow?
What are the reasons and reasons behind this?
Is science the enemy of religion?
What is the end of science?
The answers to these questions are all in the book "Contact".
After reading this book, I remembered that when I was a child, I was also fascinated by the night sky, looking at the stars, fantasizing about what was on it?
Will there be other creatures in outer space? What do they look like? What language is spoken? Are there any superpowers?
I believe that most children have had this fantasy and question.
In "Contact", Carl set up such a protagonist, she loves imagination, is very fascinated by space civilization, she is the female scientist Ellie. Elovey.
Ellie lost her father at a young age, her mother took her to remarry, and the hardships of life made her grow up not smooth.
But for the ideal in her heart, she studied hard, won a doctorate, and gained a place in the field of radio astronomy.
Ellie's institute worked tirelessly to find a signal from 26 light-years away in the direction of Vega.
Deciphering signals is very difficult, and the results of deciphering have caused an uproar in the world.
I won't spoil these stories, and I'll feel better reading the book myself.
With the help of the story in the book, Karl actually wants to express two things.
First, he believed that there were other civilizations in outer space.
Second, if the end of science is that there is no end, where should human science go?
Some questions, Karl gave his answers, and some needed us to think for ourselves and give our own answers.
Either way, keep thinking and imagining, that's what science fiction science teaches us.
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