Book: Contact
Author: Carl Sagan
Pages: 432
This is my 32nd read for the year
This is the story of Ellie Arroway. They year is 1999 and she is in charge of Project Argus which searches for extraterrestial life. While working a signal comes in that seems to be from the Vega System 26 light years away. Plans are made to build a machine that will transport 5 people to Vega to find out if there really is life out there. The crew heads out, and upon return realize that no time at all has passed on earth. They are then accused of conspiracy.
This was a very convoluted book in my opinion. I enjoyed some parts of it - but trying to work throuhg the basic story through all the side information that really didn't propel the story forward made this a tough read for me. I could not get fully invested. It is very different than the movie and in some parts it just drags.
Stars: 3
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