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Cosmos sold over 900,000 copies while on these lists, [19] and continued popularity has allowed Cosmos to sell about five million copies internationally. [20] Shortly after Cosmos was published, Sagan received a $2 million advance for the novel Contact. [21] This was the largest release given for an unwritten fiction book at the time. [14]
Sagan in Rahway High School's 1951 yearbook. Carl Edward Sagan was born on November 9, 1934, in the Bensonhurst neighborhood of New York City's Brooklyn borough. [9] [10] His mother, Rachel Molly Gruber (1906–1982), was a housewife from New York City; his father, Samuel Sagan (1905–1979), was a Ukrainian-born garment worker who had emigrated from Kamianets-Podilskyi (then in the Russian ...
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Cosmos: A Personal Voyage is a thirteen-part, 1980–81 television series written by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan, and Steven Soter, with Sagan as presenter.It was executive-produced by Adrian Malone, produced by David Kennard, Geoffrey Haines-Stiles, and Gregory Andorfer, and directed by the producers, David Oyster, Richard Wells, Tom Weidlinger, and others.
It is the sequel to Sagan's 1980 book Cosmos and was inspired by the famous 1990 Pale Blue Dot photograph, for which Sagan provides a poignant description. In the book, Sagan mixes philosophy about the human place in the universe with a description of the current knowledge about the Solar System. He also details a human vision for the future. [1]
Cosmos (serial novel), a 17-chapter serial novel published in Science Fiction Digest (later Fantasy Magazine) in 1933 - 1934; Cosmos (Humboldt book), a scientific treatise by Alexander von Humboldt; Cosmos (Gombrowicz novel), a 1965 novel by Witold Gombrowicz; Cosmos, a 1980 book by Carl Sagan based on the documentary series
The term has been used in non-fictional contexts as well. One example is its use by Carl Sagan (1934–1996) in his 1980 book Cosmos, and the 12th episode of his documentary of the same name, to refer to a text where hypothetical extraterrestrial civilizations could store all of their information and knowledge. [1] [14] [15]
To help viewers of Cosmos distinguish between "millions" and "billions", Sagan stressed the "b". The public's association of Sagan with the phrase "billions and billions" came from a Tonight Show skit. Parodying Sagan's affect, Johnny Carson quipped "billions and billions". [2] The phrase has, however, now become a humorous fictitious unit ...