Episode · StarTalk Radio · 2025-12-02

Books mentioned on Listening for the Universe’s Secrets, with Kim Arcand

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Neil deGrasse Tyson discussed Contact by Carl Sagan.

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

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   Contact

   Carl Sagan · at 7:15

   Contact by Carl Sagan is a classic science fiction novel that chronicles humanity's first detected radio signal from an extraterrestrial civilization and the subsequent efforts to build a machine to meet them.

   Discussed

   “So, in the movie Contact love that movie. which was based on the novel by Carl Sagan- Mm-hmm. the lead protagonist, uh, Ellie Arroway was her, uh, her name,”

   Neil deGrasse Tyson Listening for the Universe’s Secrets, with Kim Arcand 2025-12-02 Listen at 7:15

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