An edition of Pale Blue Dot (1994)

Pale Blue Dot

A Vision of the Human Future in Space

Ballantine Books Ed edition
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An edition of Pale Blue Dot (1994)

Pale Blue Dot

A Vision of the Human Future in Space

Ballantine Books Ed edition
  • 4.57 ·
  • 23 Ratings
  • 234 Want to read
  • 13 Currently reading
  • 25 Have read

“Fascinating . . . memorable . . . revealing . . . perhaps the best of Carl Sagan’s books.”—The Washington Post Book World (front page review)

In Cosmos, the late astronomer Carl Sagan cast his gaze over the magnificent mystery of the Universe and made it accessible to millions of people around the world. Now in this stunning sequel, Carl Sagan completes his revolutionary journey through space and time.

Future generations will look back on our epoch as the time when the human race finally broke into a radically new frontier—space. In Pale Blue Dot, Sagan traces the spellbinding history of our launch into the cosmos and assesses the future that looms before us as we move out into our own solar system and on to distant galaxies beyond. The exploration and eventual settlement of other worlds is neither a fantasy nor luxury, insists Sagan, but rather a necessary condition for the survival of the human race.

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Ballantine Books
Language
English
Pages
384

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Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
September 8, 1997, Ballantine Books
Paperback in English - Ballantine Books Ed edition
Cover of: Pale Blue Dot
Pale Blue Dot
1994, RANDOM HOUSE, INC
Cover of: Pale Blue Dot
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
1994, Random House
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First Sentence

"The spacecraft was a long way from home, beyond the orbit of the outermost planet and high above the ecliptic plane-which is an imaginary flat surface that we can think of as something like a racetrack in which the orbits of the planets are mainly confined."

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Number of pages
384
Dimensions
8.3 x 5.6 x 0.9 inches
Weight
11.4 ounces

ID Numbers

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OL9731861M
Internet Archive
palebluedot00carl
ISBN 10
0345376595
ISBN 13
9780345376596
Library Thing
57246
Goodreads
61663

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The spacecraft was a long way from home, beyond the orbit of the outermost planet and high above the ecliptic plane-which is an imaginary flat surface that we can think of as something like a racetrack in which the orbits of the planets are mainly confined.
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