# Contact (novel) **Domain:** Literature / Science / First Contact **Doc Type:** Book Node **Maturity:** Evolving **Related:** [[Carl Sagan]], [[Contact (1997)]], [[Machine Mediation]], [[Public Mythology]] --- ## Definition _Contact_ is Carl Sagan's 1985 novel about scientific reception of an extraterrestrial message and the political, religious and epistemic consequences of building its machine. ## Corpus Context The novel supplies the source architecture for [[Contact (1997)]] and links first contact to institutional interpretation rather than spectacle alone. ## Relationships [[Carl Sagan]], [[Contact (1997)]], [[Machine Mediation]], [[Public Mythology]] ## Sources / Provenance - [[articles/Beyond the Sea|Beyond the Sea]]