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...experts that are the Britannica's hallmark -but, say the editors, without the overlaps, omissions and inconsistencies of earlier editions. There is Arnold Toynbee on Julius Caesar and leading American Catholic Theologian John L. McKenzie on Roman Catholicism, English Embryologist Sir Gavin de Beer on evolution and Carl Sagan (see BOOKS) on the planets and extraterrestrial life. The late Sir Tyrone Guthrie writes about theater, Anthony Burgess examines the novel, Alan Lomax discusses singing, and Barnaby Conrad summarizes bullfighting. Although more than half the scholarly contributors are American or English, the authors come from a total of 131 countries...
...COSMIC CONNECTION An Extraterrestrial Perspective by CARL SAGAN 288 pages. Anchor Press...
COMMUNICATION WITH EXTRATERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE (CETI) Edited by CARL SAGAN 428 pages. The MIT Press...
Questioned recently about what he thought any strange creature who stepped out of a flying saucer might look like, a celebrated astronomer quipped: "A miniature Carl Sagan." It was not a bad guess. Exobiologist Sagan has long been the prime advocate and perennial gadfly for planetary exploration. He is also this country's leading believer in the possibility of communicating with civilizations on other worlds. With Soviet Astronomer I.S. Shklovskii, Sagan wrote Intelligent Life in the Universe, a recent book that presents the classic argument for the existence of life elsewhere in the universe. As the current director...
...Sagan, it is scientifically possible for Mars to harbor "macro-organisms" the size of polar bears, who crunch rocks for water, sport silicon skins to protect themselves against deadly sunburn, and hibernate for thousands of years at a stretch. Sagan also contemplates astro-engineered civilizations so far advanced that their accomplishments would seem to us "indistinguishable from magic." He can easily imagine intergalactic, rapid-transit routes where "an object that plunges down a rotating black hole may re-emerge elsewhere and elsewhen-in another place and another time...