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Making Contact is an examination of the science behind the search for extraterrestrial intelligence and its pioneer, Jill Tarter, the inspiration for the main character in Carl Sagan's Contact. Jill Tarter is a pioneer, an innovator, an adventurer, and a controversial force. At a time when women weren’t encouraged to do much outside of the home, Tarter ventured as far out as she could―into the three-Kelvin cold of deep space. And she hasn’t stopped investigating a subject that takes and takes without giving much back.
Today, her computer's screensaver is just the text “SO…ARE WE ALONE?” This question keeps her up at night. It is, in some ways, the question that keep us all up at night. We have all spent dark hours wondering about our place in it all, our aloneness both terrestrial and cosmic. Tarter’s life and her life’s work are not just a quest to understand life in the universe: They are a quest to understand our lives in the universe. No one has told that story, her story, until now.
Making Contact was featured in WIRED's "Eight Essential Science Reads" and listed as one of Space.com's "Best Space and Sci-Fi Books of the Year."
Unsure about all this? Read excerpts at Popular Science, WIRED, KQED, Air&Space, and Barnes and Noble.
Want to know some backstory? Read interviews about the book at The Atlantic, Merry Jane, Astronomy, SyFy Wire, Women Across Frontiers, Deborah Kalb Books, and A Life's Work.
Want to hear some backstory? Listen and/or watch at Facebook Live, Coast to Coast AM, Everyday Einstein, KQED's Forum, How on Earth, Fun Kids Science Weekly, Listen, Ladies, and Read Learn Live.
Want to hear what other people think? Read reviews in The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Nature, Science News, Scientific American, Space.com, Women You Should Know, Unbound Worlds, The Space Review, Publishers Weekly, and Kirkus Reviews.
eBook: iTunes, Amazon, BN
Making Contact is an examination of the science behind the search for extraterrestrial intelligence and its pioneer, Jill Tarter, the inspiration for the main character in Carl Sagan's Contact. Jill Tarter is a pioneer, an innovator, an adventurer, and a controversial force. At a time when women weren’t encouraged to do much outside of the home, Tarter ventured as far out as she could―into the three-Kelvin cold of deep space. And she hasn’t stopped investigating a subject that takes and takes without giving much back.
Today, her computer's screensaver is just the text “SO…ARE WE ALONE?” This question keeps her up at night. It is, in some ways, the question that keep us all up at night. We have all spent dark hours wondering about our place in it all, our aloneness both terrestrial and cosmic. Tarter’s life and her life’s work are not just a quest to understand life in the universe: They are a quest to understand our lives in the universe. No one has told that story, her story, until now.
Making Contact was featured in WIRED's "Eight Essential Science Reads" and listed as one of Space.com's "Best Space and Sci-Fi Books of the Year."
Unsure about all this? Read excerpts at Popular Science, WIRED, KQED, Air&Space, and Barnes and Noble.
Want to know some backstory? Read interviews about the book at The Atlantic, Merry Jane, Astronomy, SyFy Wire, Women Across Frontiers, Deborah Kalb Books, and A Life's Work.
Want to hear some backstory? Listen and/or watch at Facebook Live, Coast to Coast AM, Everyday Einstein, KQED's Forum, How on Earth, Fun Kids Science Weekly, Listen, Ladies, and Read Learn Live.
Want to hear what other people think? Read reviews in The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Nature, Science News, Scientific American, Space.com, Women You Should Know, Unbound Worlds, The Space Review, Publishers Weekly, and Kirkus Reviews.