The book Contact by Carl Sagan is IMO much better than the movie. It tries
hard to make the science believable. The movie though good was conceived as
a mass market movie so that believable science was not a requirement.
> >Uh oh -- I forgot one. "Contact". It may actually be the only OTHER
> >"Science SF" movie ever made, as well as a damned good "Social SF" movie.
> >The opening equence alone is worth the price of admission. (And yes, I
know
> >there are a couple of pretty terrible scientific gaffs in "Contact", but
they
> >don't go to the heart of the story . . .)
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