Volume 25, Number 18 · November 23, 1978
Hello and Goodbye
By Martin Gardner
Murmurs of Earth: The Voyager Interstellar Record
by Carl Sagan, by F.D. Drake, by Ann Druyan, by Timothy Ferris, by Jon Lomberg, by Linda Salzman Sagan
Random House, 273 pp., $15.00
Spaceships of the Mind
by Nigel Calder
Viking, 144 pp., $14.95
In the Center of Immensities
by Bernard Lovell, edited by Ruth Nanda Anshen
Harper & Row, 171 pp., $10.95
'A sad spectacle!' exclaimed Thomas Carlyle, contemplating the possibility that millions of planets circle other suns. 'If they be inhabited, what a scope for pain and folly; and if they be not inhabited, what a waste of space!'
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