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This all-new and long-awaited sequel to Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan's international bestseller Cosmos takes readers to worlds only now emerging with the advent of new technologies.Druyan takes readers on an extraordinary journey through the vast and unexplored realms of Earth and space, past and future, fact and imagination. In coordination with the debut of the second TV season of National Geographic's Cosmos, the book travels through more than 14 billion years of cosmic evolution and into an astonishing future, helping us solve enduring mysteries of our origins and dream of an unimaginable time ahead. We meet the colorful characters who push beyond the boundaries of knowledge--both the little-known but monumental visionaries of the past and the scientists whose work is shaping our future.
About the Author
Award winning writer/producer/director Ann Druyan was the Creative Director of NASA's Voyager Interstellar Message. With her late husband, Carl Sagan, Druyan was co-writer of six New York Times best-sellers, including "Comet," "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors," "The Demon Haunted World," "Billions & Billions" and "The Varieties of Scientific Experience." She was co-writer of the 1980 television series "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage." Druyan was co-creator and co-producer of the feature film "Contact," starring Jodie Foster and directed by Bob Zemeckis. She was the lead executive producer (for which she won the Producer's Guild and Peabody Awards) , co-writer (for which she won the 2014 Emmy) as well as one of three directors of Cosmos: A SpaceTime Odyssey, which was the largest global roll out of a series in television history and has now been seen in 181 countries.
