# Carl Sagan **Domain:** Astronomy / Science Communication / Literature **Doc Type:** Scientist and Author Node **Maturity:** Evolving **Related:** [[Contact (novel)]], [[Contact (1997)]], [[Planetary Consciousness]], [[Third Culture]] --- ## Definition Carl Sagan (1934–1996) was an American astronomer, planetary scientist and science communicator whose work joined scientific skepticism to cosmic imagination. ## Corpus Context His novel [[Contact (novel)]] and its film adaptation make communication with non-human intelligence an institutional and epistemic problem rather than a simple revelation. ## Relationships [[Contact (novel)]], [[Contact (1997)]], [[Planetary Consciousness]], [[Third Culture]] ## Sources / Provenance - [[articles/Beyond the Sea|Beyond the Sea]]