Contact
In December, 1999, a multinational team journeys out to the stars, to the most awesome encounter in human history. Who -- or what -- is out there? 
In Cosmos, Carl Sagan explained the universe. In Contact, he predicts its future -- and our own.
Exploration, Fiction, Human-alien encounters, Life on other planets, Radio astronomy
Carl Sagan
Carl Sagan was an American Pulitzer-prize winning author and astrophysicist. Sagan is the author of more than 600 publications.

<q>“For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.”
</cite>― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark</cite></q>