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* ShownTheirWork: Being written by one of the most famous astrophysicists known for his promotion of science to the general people, the book is meticulous in the depiction of radio telescopes, SETI and the engineering involved to build the Machine. Entire chapters are centered around the scientific methodology and philosophy being applied, such as how to determine the speed, strength, bandwidth of an alien signal (assuming they are using anything remotely close to the same technology they have to listen). In the author note Sagan mention a half dozen colleagues he gave the book to in order to provide additional notes.
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* ShownTheirWork: Being written by one of the most famous astrophysicists known for his promotion of science to the general people, the book is meticulous in the depiction of radio telescopes, SETI and the engineering involved to build the Machine. Entire chapters are centered around the scientific methodology and philosophy being applied, such as how to determine the speed, strength, bandwidth of an alien signal (assuming they are using anything remotely close to the same technology they have to listen). In the author author's note Sagan mention mentioned a half dozen colleagues he gave the book to in order to provide additional notes.
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* ShoutOut: Ellie is "confined" inside her scientific compound at the end of the novel, under surveillance. This is a ShoutOut to the fate of [[UsefulNotes/HeresiesAndHeretics Galileo Galilei]], who was confined in a similar matter after his experience with the inquisition.
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** The concept of aliens giving humans instructions to build a Machine that would facilitate communication with them is a larger-scale version of Cal Meacham ordering and assembling the components of the Interocitor in ''Film/ThisIslandEarth''.
** Ellie is "confined" inside her scientific compound at the end of the novel, under surveillance. This is a ShoutOut to the fate of [[UsefulNotes/HeresiesAndHeretics Galileo Galilei]], who was confined in a similar matter after his experience with the inquisition.
** The concept of aliens giving humans instructions to build a Machine that would facilitate communication with them is a larger-scale version of Cal Meacham ordering and assembling the components of the Interocitor in ''Film/ThisIslandEarth''.
** Ellie is "confined" inside her scientific compound at the end of the novel, under surveillance. This is a ShoutOut to the fate of [[UsefulNotes/HeresiesAndHeretics Galileo Galilei]], who was confined in a similar matter after his experience with the inquisition.
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A romance written by Creator/CarlSagan, it tells the story of our first contact with extraterrestrial intelligence... but in a manner much more realistic than the usual portrayal with [=UFOs=] and impossibly quick interstellar travel.
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A 1985 romance written by Creator/CarlSagan, it tells the story of our first contact with extraterrestrial intelligence... but in a manner much more realistic than the usual portrayal with [=UFOs=] and impossibly quick interstellar travel.
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* AmbiguouslyEvil: S.R. Hadden bluntly says that he didn't earn his vast wealth, he took it. While being facetious, he clearly was implying that he engaged in corrupt or at least ruthless business practices to become one of the world's wealthiest and most powerful men. There's also the possibility that the alien communications, and all of the financial and human costs in response to it, was all an elaborate hoax orchestrated by Hadden for little more than his own personal amusement (depending on whether one thinks that the hours of static on Ellie's recording device are definitive proof of her account or not).
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* AmbiguouslyEvil: S.R. Hadden bluntly says that he didn't earn his vast wealth, he took it. While being facetious, he clearly was implying that he engaged in corrupt or at least ruthless business practices to become one of the world's wealthiest and most powerful men. [[spoiler: There's also the possibility that the alien communications, and all of the financial and human costs in response to it, was were all an elaborate hoax orchestrated by Hadden for little more than his own personal amusement (depending on whether one thinks that the hours of static on Ellie's recording device are definitive proof of her account or not).]]
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* AmbiguouslyEvil: S.R. Hadden bluntly says that he didn't earn his vast wealth, he took it. While being facetious, he clearly was implying that he engaged in corrupt or at least ruthless business practices to become one of the world's wealthiest and most powerful men. There's also the possibility that the alien communications, and all of the financial and human costs in response to it, was all an elaborate hoax orchestrated by Hadden for little more than his own personal amusement (depending on whether one thinks that the hours of static on Ellie's recording device are definitive proof of her account or not).
