Billions and Billions
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| Preceded by | The Demon-Haunted World | |
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Billions and Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium is a 1997 book by the American astronomer and science popularizer Carl Sagan. The last book written by Sagan before his death in 1996,[1] it was published by Random House.
Overview
The book is a collection of essays Sagan wrote covering diverse topics such as
myelodysplasia, the disease which finally took his life in December 1996. Sagan's wife, Ann Druyan
, wrote the epilogue of the book after his death.
"Billions and billions"
To help viewers of sagan. Aside from using the catchphrase as the title of the book, Sagan's introduction also discusses it.
References
- ISBN 0-679-41160-7.
- ^ Carl Sagan takes questions more from his 'Wonder and Skepticism' CSICOP 1994 keynote, Skeptical Inquirer Archived December 21, 2016, at the Wayback Machine
External links
- A review of the book
- Video of skit from The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson mentioning "billions and billions"
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