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Foreword Freeman Dyson | |
Personal reflections Ann Druyan | |
Preface | |
Part I. Cosmic Perspective: 1. A transitional animal | |
2. The Unicorn of Cetus | |
3. A message from earth | |
4. A message to earth | |
5. Experiments in utopias | |
6. Chauvinism | |
7. Space exploration as a human enterprise I. The scientific interest | |
8. Space exploration as a human enterprise II. The public interest | |
9. Space exploration as a human enterprise III. The historical interest | |
Part II. The Solar System: 10. On teaching the first grade | |
11. 'The ancient and legendary Gods of old' | |
12. The Venus detective story | |
13. Venus is hell | |
14. Science and 'intelligence' | |
15. The moons of Barsoom | |
16. The mountains of Mars I. Observations from earth | |
17. The mountains of Mars II. Observations from space | |
18. The canals of Mars | |
19. The lost pictures of Mars | |
20. The Ice Age and the cauldron | |
21. Beginnings and ends of the Earth | |
22. Terraforming the plants | |
23. The exploration and utlization of the solar system | |
Part III. Beyond the Solar System: 24. Some of my best friends are dolphins | |
25. 'Hello, central casting? Send me twenty extraterrestrials' | |
26. The cosmic connection | |
27. Extraterrestrial life: an idea whose time has come | |
28. Has the Earth been visited? | |
29. A search strategy for detecting extraterrestrial intelligence | |
30. If we succeed ... | |
31. Cables, drums, and seashells | |
32. The night freight to the stars | |
33. Astroengineering | |
34. Twenty questions: a classification of cosmic civilisations | |
35. Galactic cultural exchanges | |
36. A passage to elsewhere | |
37. Starfolk I. A Fable | |
38. Starfolk II. A future | |
39. Starfolk III. The cosmic Cheshire cats | |
Epilog David Morrison | |
Index. |
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