Cosmos (book)

Cosmos is a book by Carl Sagan. Written to accompany Cosmos' original television series, Cosmos A Personal Voyage, its thirteen illustrated chapters correspond to the thirteen episodes. It was first published by Random House in 1980. A sequel was published in 1994.

It spent seventy weeks on the New York Times bestseller list to become the best-selling science book ever published at the time. It received the Hugo Award for Best Non-Fiction Book in 1981.

Contents

 * Introduction


 * 1) The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean
 * 2) One Voice in the Cosmic Fugue
 * 3) The Harmony of Worlds
 * 4) Heaven and Hell
 * 5) Blues for a Red Planet
 * 6) Travelers' Tales
 * 7) The Backbone of Night
 * 8) Travels in Space and Time
 * 9) The Lives of the Stars
 * 10) The Edge of Forever
 * 11) The Persistence of Memory
 * 12) Encyclopaedia Galactica
 * 13) Who Speaks for Earth?


 * Appendix 1: Reductio ad Absurdum and the Square Root of Two
 * Appendix 2: The Five Pythagorean Solids
 * For Further Reading
 * Index