Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium

An interesting and thought provoking book by the late Carl Sagan. Fans of this author will love this

I have been a longtime fan of the late Carl Sagan but I had never read his final book before his death. I purchased this volume (Billions & Billions: Thoughts on life and earth at the brink of the millennium by Carl Sagan) for a bargain price on Amazon and found this volume to be an insightful and thoughtful text of essays. This wonderful book is organized into three parts. Part one (The power and beauty of quantifications) covers the following: Billions and billions, the Persian chessboard, Monday-night hunters, the gaze of God and the dripping faucet, four cosmic questions and so many suns, so many worlds. The second part (What are conservatives conserving?) deals with the world that came in the mail, the environment, Croesus and Cassandra, a piece of the sky is missing, ambush: the warming of the world, escape from ambush and religion and science: an alliance. The final part (Where hearts and minds collide) focuses on the common enemy, abortion: is it possible to be both “Pro-life” and “pro-choice”? The rules of the game, Gettysburg and now, the twentieth century and the valley of the shadow. Even though I do not agree with everything Carl Sagan writes about in this book; nevertheless, the vast majority of material is timely and thought provoking. His thoughts on his life and realizing his health was failing makes this a must book to read for fans of Carl Sagan. In one respect, Carl Sagan will live on through his many classic books. Rating: 5 Stars. Joseph J. Truncale (Author: Never Trust a Politician: A critical review of politics and politicians). Read more

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