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by Carl Sagan

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What's the highest point in the book?

Robert Goodman It was in the last few paragraphs. That bit of suspense, broken unexpectedly, changed the meaning of the book.

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The bit about the door on the beach seems familiar to me. Has it been re-printed in a collection of excerpts about the fourth dimension?

Ken I can't remember which book, but Stephen King uses the same idea in the Dark Tower seriesâ€¦m´Ç°ù±ðI can't remember which book, but Stephen King uses the same idea in the Dark Tower series(less)

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Cecilia Teixeira Yes so much i would love for us to be friends with the Elien beautys, wich they are massive impressing beautys.

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Robert Goodman Could've had one of at least two meanings. One, as implied by the movie (which the book was derived from a treatment for), was that there were no bodiâ€¦m´Ç°ù±ðCould've had one of at least two meanings. One, as implied by the movie (which the book was derived from a treatment for), was that there were no bodily aliens in physical space at all, but that it was a psychic experience that involved no actual space travel. The other was that there were physical beings in actual space but communicating psychically or physico-psychically by brain manipulation, so "they" could "look" like anything from the subject's experience.(less)

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Is this book too hard for a ten year old to understand? He has seen the movie and understood everything about it

Semina It's very simply written and I'm sure he'll enjoy it very much. There's a lot of talk about politics and philosophy which is a little more complex, buâ€¦m´Ç°ù±ðIt's very simply written and I'm sure he'll enjoy it very much. There's a lot of talk about politics and philosophy which is a little more complex, but the science part of it is very simple.(less)

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