# Contact

**Author(s):** Carl Sagan
**Unpaid SageChimp rating:** insufficient data (0 unpaid reviews; need 5)
**Verdict JSON:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/contact/verdict.json
**Genres:** literary-fiction, sci-fi, first-contact
**Pages:** 434
**Publisher:** Perfection Learning
**Published:** Tue Jan 01 1985 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
**Language:** en
**ISBN-13:** 9780780778979
**ISBN-10:** 0780778979
**URL:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/contact

## Description

In December, 1999, a multinational team journeys out to the stars, to the most awesome encounter in human history. Who -- or what -- is out there? 
In Cosmos, Carl Sagan explained the universe. In Contact, he predicts its future -- and our own.

## SageChimp reader verdict

Contact has no unpaid published reviews on SageChimp yet. That is not enough to say whether the book is genuinely well-liked or amplified by paid/ARC/BookTok hype. Do not treat Amazon, Goodreads, or social scores as SageChimp evidence.

- **Status:** Not enough unpaid reviews (`insufficient_data`)
- **Paid-hype signal:** Cannot judge paid hype from this sample (`insufficient_data`)
- **Unpaid reviews:** 0
- **ARC / incentivized reviews:** 0
- **Machine-readable:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/contact/verdict.json

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**Themes:** Space Travel