It's Carl and Annie!!!! What a treasure!! I hope at some point a good copy of the first release is found and sold once again. All that being said, I do not regret purchasing this, as it supports Druyan and the Sagan estate, but I don't think I will be using it much. That is the version I would like to get my hands on. I am not sure why the previously released audio book version is not able to be purchased, whether it's due to copyright or licensing or some other absurd reason. My amateur home studio has a better noise to signal ratio than this recording, and even still, leaving the gate off with the background hiss playing continuously would have been less distracting. Her performance is wonderful, but the background hiss pops in when she speaks and pops out when she stops. Also, the sections where Ann Druyan narrates have a very noticeable and distracting noise gate. In this release, entire paragraphs are unintelligible from the tape degradation. But, I would have much preferred the previous audio book release sound files, lower fidelity as it may be, to have been spliced in where there is silence. I understand the thinking behind releasing a new digital conversion of the original masters, as they are now, with silences contained within the degraded tapes. This review is souly regarding the recently released Audible edition.

I have total respect for Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan I am ever thankful for their work. I shouldn't have to tell you of its grandeur and importance. Introductory music from the original score for COSMOS: A SpaceTime Odyssey composed by Alan Silvestri, used with permission from Cosmos Studios, Inc. Sagan sees humanity''s future in the stars.' - Chicago Tribune 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. 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. Now in this stunning sequel, Carl Sagan completes his revolutionary journey through space and time.įuture generations will look back on our epoch as the time when the human race finally broke into a radically new frontier-space. 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.

PERHAPS THE BEST OF CARL SAGAN''S BOOKS.' - The Washington Post Book World (front page review)

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