Author: Carl Sagan
Narrators: Neil deGrasse Tyson, Ann Druyan, Seth MacFarlane, LeVar Burton
Playtime: 14 hrs 31m
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
First Published: 1980
Genre: Nonfiction, Science
Book description: The story of fifteen billion years of cosmic evolution transforming matter and life into consciousness, of how science and civilisation grew up together, and of the forces and individuals who helped shape modern science. A story told with Carl Sagan's remarkable ability to make scientific ideas both comprehensible and exciting, based on his acclaimed television series.
Review:
This was a great read. It's hard t put it into words. It tries to enclose so much information in a simple enough way so that you don't need to be an expert or have overly specialized science knowledge to enjoy the read. It is presented in a way to share knowledge but the refreshing part is that it does not include the author's ideology, no religion, or inspiring quotes for a very niche mentality. It does feel like its sharing information with the only intent of making sure the population in general has access to it.
Cosmos was written before string theory, the multiverse, supersymmetry, dark matter, dark energy, and the Higgs boson became hot topics, it would have been a fantastic ride if he could have shared them in his words like what he did for the historical buzz theories he discussed. It still holds up well. Sagan is in love with interacting with other civilizations. A topic I am also very invested in. Sharing my personal opinion that no one asked for I fear my fellow humankind more than an alien civilization we might come across with.
I had the luck of picking the book in an audio format- the way the narrator portrays Sagan's passion for science made it an enjoyable reading experience.
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