TCS: Enviro-Sci - Sagan Reloaded: "Sagan Reloaded
By Kenneth Silber08/13/2003

Nick Sagan is a writer who has spent a decade working on science-fiction scripts and games. He wrote and edited for the TV series Star Trek: Voyager. In 2000, he was a colleague of mine at Space.com. He is the son of a famous father, the late astronomer Carl Sagan. The Voyager 1 space probe, now heading out of the solar system and already the most distant human-made object, carries a record with various sounds and greetings, including the voice of a six-year-old Nick: 'Hello from the children of planet Earth.'

Sagan now has written his first novel, Idlewild (G.P. Putnam's Sons). The book is an engrossing work of science fiction, focused on a student in a future elite school that employs advanced virtual-reality technologies. Sagan's novel will get attention partly because of its author's recognizable name. But it will resonate due to its intricate plot, well-realized psychological dynamics, and presentation of futuristic technologies, which are depicted by Sagan with both imagination and a laudable scientific verisimilitude."
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WHERE DO YOU WANT TO LIVE, IN VIRTUAL REALITY, OR SEEING THE REAL ADVENTURE UNFOLD? - LRK -