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Broca's Brain

Reflections on the Romance of Science

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Broca's Brain

Written by: Carl Sagan
Narrated by: Dion Graham
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Carl Sagan, writer and scientist, returns from the frontier to tell us about how the world works. In his delightfully down-to-earth style, he explores and explains a mind-boggling future of intelligent robots, extraterrestrial life and its consequences, and other provocative, fascinating quandaries of the future that we want to see today.

©1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979 Carl Sagan (P)2017 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved. Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material: Cornell University Press: "An Analysis of 'Worlds in Collision'" by Carl Sagan, in Scientists Confront Velikovsky, edited by D. Goldsmith. © 1976 by Cornell University Press. Encyclopedia Americana: "UFO's." © 1975 by Americana Corporation. Field Enterprises: "The Climates of Planets" in Science Year 1975. © 1975 by Field Enterprises Educational Corporation. William Morrow & Company, Inc.: Excerpts from The Planets by Diane Ackerman. © 1975, 1976 by Diane Ackerman. Reprinted by permission of William Morrow & Company, Inc. Astronomy & Space Science Nature & Ecology Physics Science Cosmology Mathematics Astronomy

What the critics say

“Magnificent.... Delightful.... A masterpiece. A message of tremendous hope for humanity.... While ever conscious that human folly can terminate man’s march into the future, Sagan nonetheless paints for us a mind-boggling future: intelligent robots, the discovery of extraterrestrial life and its consequences, and above all the challenge and pursuit of the mystery of the universe.” (Chicago Tribune)

“Go out and buy this book, because Carl Sagan is not only one of the world’s most respected scientists, he’s a great writer.... I can give a book no greater accolade than to say I’m planning on reading it again. And again. And again.” (The Miami Herald)

“Closely reasoned, impeccably researched, gently humorous, utterly devastating.” (The Washington Post)

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Carl Sagan's explanation of how he sees the passage of time on this Earth is incredible. His interruption on past beliefs of others is enlightening too.

Dion Graham's narration, with all his emotional backing, is utterly superb!!! You can feel all of what we'd expect if Carl Sagan had narrated it himself!!

loved the book and it's narration!!!

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Great performance, almost had me believing I was listening to carl sagan himself, with the narrator's enthusiasm.

Great performance

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titles and I will be a good day at work and I will be a good day at work

Good

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Love Carl Sagan, but I can’t help but drop a couple of stars as the content becomes a little dated and therefore somewhat less interesting to read 40+ years later.

Excellent but a little dated

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