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kentauros

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1. Cool!

Reply to pokerfan (Original post)

Wed Jun 19, 2013, 09:14 AM

Jun 2013

I'll have to listen to this over the weekend

I never read the book, though I tried. I found Sagan's fiction-writing style lacking (it came across as too clinical.) So, I'm thankful for the movie, one of my favorites for Hollywood-created science fiction.

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Carl Sagan's Contact read by Jodie Foster [View all] pokerfan Jun 2013 OP

Cool! kentauros Jun 2013 #1

Wasn't Contact his only foray into fiction? pokerfan Jun 2013 #2

Yes, I think it was his only work of fiction. kentauros Jun 2013 #3

I was hoping that there was a book I might have missed pokerfan Jun 2013 #4

I know the masses won't notice in that little blurb, kentauros Jun 2013 #5

I would like to see Ringworld pokerfan Jun 2013 #6

I know "siphie" has produced some good miniseries in the past, kentauros Jun 2013 #7

SSR pokerfan Jun 2013 #8

I've never watched Big Bang Theory, kentauros Jun 2013 #11

+(whatever Slippery Jim thinks he can get away with) getting old in mke Jun 2013 #9

Considering he could pick our average locked door without breaking step, kentauros Jun 2013 #10

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