Carl Sagan has a new book coming out next week.

[bananas]

It'll probably make a good Christmas present.

[demnan]

1. Dumb question

Thought he was dead.

[MUAD_DIB]

2. Hasn't he been dead for about 12 years?

[greeneyedboy]

7. i was gonna say... publishing is slow, but not that slow.

[BushOut06]

9. If Elvis, Tupac, and Cobain can put out new albums after death...

Why not Sagan?

[kestrel91316]

3. I doubt that. He's been dead for many years.

[ashling]

5. billions and biliions

sorry, couldn't help myself

[acmavm]

4. Now that's what I really call a ghost writer.

[tk2kewl]

8. good one!

:D

[htuttle]

6. Yes, he's dead but his work lives on (amazon.com link included)

The new books is a collection of his lectures from 1985, and is called, "Gifford Lectures in Natural Theology, The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God".

Here's it:

http://www.amazon.com/Varieties-Scientific-Experience-Personal-Search/dp/1594201072

[Ian David]

10. Why do people insist on posting links to Amazon.com? Amazon is EVIL!

Barnes & Noble
The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God
by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (Editor), Ann Druyan (Editor)
List Price: $27.95
Online Price:
$22.36 Save 20%
Members Pay:
$20.12
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&EAN=9781594201073&itm=3


Powell's Books:

The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God
Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan
Hardcover
New $27.95
http://www.powells.com/s?kw=carl+sagan&x=0&y=0


Overstock.com:

The Varieties of Scientific Experience
A Personal View of the Search for God
by Druyan, Ann
List Price: $27.95
Today's Price: $17.53
http://www.overstock.com/cgi-bin/d2.cgi?PAGE=PROFRAME&PROD_ID=1997164


Bookstores:

Good:
Barnes & Noble, Inc
Overstock.com, Inc
Powell's Books, Inc

Neutral:
Borders Group, Inc

Evil:
Amazon.com, Inc
Books-A-Million, Inc

See:
http://www.buyblue.org/directory/76

[htuttle]

11. Cuz it's easy?

Good point, though.

[Nihil]

12. As a science fiction writer, he's okay but ...

... I suspect this latest offering has only as much relevance as the author added
to it in the last few years ...

(I hate publishers trying to cash in on deceased names ... dredging up the various
unpublished notes that their lawyers have decided are "theirs" and hyping them ...
oblivious - or uncaring - of the fact that they are not the cohesive essays that
the people themselves would have produced.)

[princehal]

13. ???????????????????/

>As a science fiction writer...

Have you read Demon Haunted World?

[scubadude]

15. As a science fiction writer he won a Hugo but....

as a science fiction writer he was the winner of an Emmy, a Peabody, and finally a Pulitzer prize.

I believe he wrote one science fiction novel, Contact, which was a Hugo winner in it's movie form.

At any rate for those who love science I recommend Dragons of Eden (which won the Pulitzer Prize) and Broca's Brain.

The first chapter of Broca's Brain is absolutely stunning, and I was fortunate enough last spring to retrace the steps Sagan described with my wife in France. That's how good Sagan's books are. We actually retraced part of one on a European vacation
20 years after reading it. This is my highest recommendation, 2 thumbs up.

If you wish to learn more about Carl Sagan see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_sagan

or his wife, author Anne Druyan see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Druyan

Scuba

[seriousstan]

14. The soundtrack is the latest from 2Pac.

[Jeffery]

16. Another possibility

Maybe the manuscript was written but never published in Sagan's lifetime. Some books are like that. Pride and Prejudice was that way, for example.