Contact

Summary

Contact is a literary work^[1]. Contact ranks in the top 2% of literary_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,930 views/month).^[2]

Key Facts

• Contact authored Carl Sagan^[3].
• Contact received the Locus Award for Best First Novel^[4].
• Contact received the NPR Top 100 Science Fiction and Fantasy Books^[5].
• Contact's instance of is recorded as literary work^[6].
• Contact's genre is science fiction^[7].
• Contact's genre is first contact fiction^[8].
• Contact's genre is hard science fiction^[9].
• first contact fiction is named after Contact^[10].
• contact is named after Contact^[11].
• Contact's language of work or name is recorded as English^[12].
• Contact's country of origin is recorded as United States^[13].
• Contact was published on September 1985^[14].
• Contact's characters is recorded as Eleanor Arroway^[15].
• Contact's has edition or translation is recorded as Contact^[16].
• Contact's nominated for is recorded as Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel^[17].
• Contact's title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Contact'}^[18].
• Contact's has characteristic is recorded as debut novel^[19].
• Contact's different from is recorded as Contact^[20].
• Contact's derivative work is recorded as Contact^[21].
• Contact's copyright status is recorded as copyrighted^[22].
• Contact's epigraph is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'My heart trembles like a poor leaf. The planets whirl in my dreams. The stars press against my window. I rotate in my sleep. My bed is a warm planet.'}^[23].
• Contact's form of creative work is recorded as novel^[24].

Product Details

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• Release type: Prose^[25]

• Community tags: novel, science fiction^[26]

• MusicBrainz ID: 1077a9c8-316f-4bdd-adde-076caf29eb24^[27]

Body

Authorship and Creation

Contact authored Carl Sagan^[3].

Publication

Contact was published on September 1985^[14]. Contact's language of work or name is recorded as English^[12]. Genres include science fiction^[7], first contact fiction^[8], and hard science fiction^[9].

Reception

Awards received include Locus Award for Best First Novel^[4], a literary award^[28], in United States^[29] and NPR Top 100 Science Fiction and Fantasy Books^[5].

Why It Matters

Contact ranks in the top 2% of literary_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,930 views/month).^[2] Contact has Wikipedia articles in 18 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[30] Contact is known by 3 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[31]

FAQs

What awards did Contact receive?

Honors received include Locus Award for Best First Novel^[4] and NPR Top 100 Science Fiction and Fantasy Books^[5].