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Billions and Billions
by Carl Sagan
Sagan's final essays: big numbers, chess, abortion, global warming, and his own dying, finished by Ann Druyan. Clear-eyed to the end.
Read it if…
you want Sagan on ethics, climate and mortality.
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Skip it if…
you want astronomy.
Try instead: The Varieties of Scientific Experience →
Three things you will actually use
- Think in large numbers.
- Face death without illusion.
- Act on the evidence.
Do this first
Read the final chapters.
Our verdict
Sagan's last essays.
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