Contact

Carl Sagan is a good writer, but not a good novelist. Contact suffers from many novels that set out to make a social/political/cultural point. Not thematic, but making a statement. In this case, the point is that the universe is very big and there simply must be other intelligent species out there. As Sagan said somewhere else, if there isn’t then it’s a big waste of space. The characters are wooden and the plot fairly predictable. The whole narrative about Ellie and her daddy issues is neither

This is in response to the one who said the movie came out before the book. It didn't. A movie of his idea was stalled so he wrote it into a novel instead in 1985. I found the book to be wonderful and while the eventual movie was good, IMHO it lacked the heart I felt the book gave me especially in regards to the ending. This is my all-time favorite book and it was a beautiful trip of emotions.

Google Play Store is filled with ZioNazi search results disparaging this intelligent human, Carl Sagan, and Google Play Store is filled with no such bias against Stephen Hawking, who in his audio essays dreams of being "Master" of the "Uni" verse. Carl Sagan's more sagacious MultiVerse Cosmos is more likely, which like Stephen Hawking's femtometer long genetic anomaly, will not necessarily "OBEY" even an infinitesimal of human command or desire, ask every pilot or astronaut who's been dosed with carcinogenic rays and more, but like Carl's Rosetta Stone carrying shielded DNA to Exosolar JPL missions, MAY, harbor Island MultiVerses conducive to interdimensional intelligent Life, Liberty and Love, not Death, Slavery and Destruction.