First edition. Octavo, original cloth. SIGNED First Edition/First Printing by Carl Sagan on the half-title page. As New in an As new dust jacket. Octavo, xiii, 274pp. Black cloth, title in gilt on spine, illustration in gilt on cover. Unclipped $7.95 on front flap Produced by Jerome Agel, author of The U.S. Constitution for Everyone. Jacket painting by Jon Lomberg; jacket typography by Jim McWilliams.

In 1973, Carl Sagan published The Cosmic Connection, listed by Discover Magazine in 2006 as one of "The 25 Greatest Science Books of All Time". An audacious view of the universe, CC rapidly became a classic work of popular science and galvanized a new generation of scientists and enthusiasts. In Sagan's celebrated style, both lucid and lyrical, he elucidates topics from astrophysics and solar system science, to colonization, terraformation, and the search for extraterrestrials. Sagan conjures his infectious excitement and wonder, and relates the revelations of astronomy to the most profound human problems and concerns: issues as gripping today as they were more than half a century ago, when CC was originally published.

Whatever wonders this third millennium will yet reveal, Carl Sagan undoubtedly played a unique role in preparing us for them.

At the memorial service for Carl Sagan in 1996, Cornell President Frank Rhodes articulated in his eulogy: “Sagan asked the big questions that others had given up. Not for him was the pursuit of science an activity of a closed and inward looking guild: for him, science was a means of public understanding and enlightenment.” Rhodes further noted that while Sagan introduced no “earthshaking discovery at Cornell,” he would be remembered more than most of the Nobel Laureates on campus because of his unparalleled ability to communicate.

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