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Comet
- Narrated by: Seth MacFarlane, Bahni Turpin
- Length: 12 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Science & Engineering, Science
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Comet begins with a breathtaking journey through space astride a comet. Pulitzer Prize-winning astronomer Carl Sagan, author of Cosmos and Contact, and writer Ann Druyan explore the origin, nature, and future of comets, and the exotic myths and portents attached to them. The authors show how comets have spurred some of the great discoveries in the history of science and raise intriguing questions about these brilliant visitors from the interstellar dark.
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- zero
- 24-01-19
classic
very well read, classic book on comets for all levels of listeners, lots of interesting detail
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- Panda
- 21-06-20
Comets Explained
This is an good book if you're into astronomy, it takes you on an journey around the sun and through space. Recommended!
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- Anonymous User
- 26-10-18
Airborne Sky God
The night sky filled my dreams with comets in their intimacy. Virtually sleep through time itself.
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- Paul
- 22-08-19
Not as great as other Sagan's books
The narration is terrible - sounds like text-to-speech most of the time, and spoils it a lot.
The book itself... I love Sagan, and have enjoyed pretty much everything else he wrote, but this one feels like there's just not enough to talk about for a whole book, so the material is spread very thinly.
Overall, so far it's the least favourite of Sagan's books for me, I am afraid.
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- James
- 10-10-20
Lots of important science and cosmic perspective
This book starts with the quaint musings of ancient Chinese record keepers on the fortune brought by different shapes of comets.
It follows our evolution in thought about comets to the present day, where we recognize them as leftovers from the formation of the solar system. We see in them the building blocks of life. We credit them for the formation of Earth's oceans. Comets are a lot more than bad omens in the sky. Except for that one time 65 million years ago!
I love how much knowledge Sagan was able to connect seemingly effortlessly to these rare visitors.
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- HulkBuster
- 08-07-19
Very cool insights!
Dissapointed only the forward was read by MacFarlane..... Otherwise an excellent book! Very captivating. You learn alot you never really thought of before. Will listen again in the future!
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- Octo
- 28-08-20
I enjoyed a lot this book
I learned so many new things from this book! It opened my appetite and I look at the Universe in a totally different way now.
It may be boring for some and amazing for others.
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- Carra McClelland
- 25-06-19
Great Book! Needs more MacFarlane
I really enjoy Sagan's work, even though some of it is now outdated (which he would love, by the way). But the narrator for the majority of this book doesn't seem to quite click with the material.
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- Nancy Link, LPC
- 13-05-19
Terrible book
I love science but the sing song voice and content horrible to listen to. I don’t like this book.
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- ShirleyC
- 08-05-19
Great story, good learning, who knew?
Painless learning, interesting story. absolutely fantastic information! Wish all learning was as informational as this, presented this well and as interesting (well. to ME!) as this was/IS!
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- Kindle Customer
- 02-07-19
Excellent!
Loved it! Amazing book. The writing in this book is beautiful. Thanks to Carl and Ann Druyan.
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- Gilbert M. Stack
- 19-05-19
Beautifully Written and Very Informative
The science fiction lover in me drives me to read the occasional popular science text such as A Brief History of Time or Comet by Sagan and Druyan. This is an excellent survey of our understanding of comets for the non-specialist. It opens with a long historiography of the ancient, medieval and early modern world’s view of comets as harbingers of disaster. Then moves into the scientists who evolved our current understanding of these fascinating celestial bodies. Halley and Newton stood out most strongly to me, but they were by no means the only ones. The book winds up with explorations of the probable impact (pun intended) of comets on the development of our planet and the life upon it. If you’ve any curiosity about any of these issues, you’re likely to greatly enjoy Comet.
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- Rick B
- 02-05-22
A very rare combination
If you are a fan of either science and or history, then this is the perfect combination of both. The PDF files that can be downloaded express the harmony in photos and graphs and create a constant visual reference. I highly recommend this Audio book. The narration was perfect. This is another classic example of the work of the combination of the most incredible talented pair to bring us this experience. Comet is a classic, and offer's it's audience a very rare combination.
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- John Michael Strubhart
- 05-06-21
Enchanting!
I thoroughly enjoy reading anything that Carl Sagan writes, so saying that this book is extraordinarily good is definitely a biased opinion. however, I enjoyed one perk that I didn't expect from this audiobook. I enjoyed the narration very much. The narrator was clear, enunciated very well, and never failed to read with considerable enthusiasm. I highly recommend this book for anyone who is curious, and anyone who enjoys good narration.