Episode · StarTalk Radio · 2025-03-25
Books mentioned on Podcasting Through Drake's Passage, with William Shatner, Scott Kelly & Neil deGrasse Tyson
Neil deGrasse Tyson discussed Contact by Carl Sagan.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Contact
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“I remember what it was it was a movie contact based on the Carl San novel where jod Foster's character is going to visit the aliens all right”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged Boldly Go
“well I wrote book called A boldly go yeah no we love that”
Passing Boldly Go
“and of course you have the book to boldly go was it boldly go”