Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human
Future in Space by Carl Sagan
Book Review Pale Blue Dot
FASCINATING . . . MEMORABLE . . . REVEALING . . . PERHAPS THE
BEST OF CARL SAGANS BOOKS.
--The Washington Post Book World (front page review)
In Cosmos, the late astronomer Carl Sagan cast his gaze over the
magnificent mystery of the Universe and made it accessible to millions of
people around the world. Now in this stunning sequel, Carl Sagan
completes his revolutionary journey through space and time.
Future generations will look back on our epoch as the time when the
human race finally broke into a radically new frontier--space. In Pale Blue
Dot Sagan traces the spellbinding history of our launch into the cosmos
and assesses the future that looms before us as we move out into our own
solar system and on to distant galaxies beyond. The exploration and
eventual settlement of other worlds is neither a fantasy nor luxury, insists
Sagan, but rather a necessary condition for the survival of the human race.
TAKES READERS FAR BEYOND Cosmos . . . Sagan sees humanitys
future in the stars.
--Chicago Tribune
Personal Review: Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future
in Space by Carl Sagan
It's hard to believe Pale Blue Dot has been with me for over 8 years, it is
also the 8 year during which I was transformed by the intelligence and
wisdom of Dr. Sagan, and of course, his other works Cosmos and The
Demon Haunted World become my favorites.
Pale Blue Dot reads like the sequel to Cosmos, but with more focus on our
Solar System, and it shows a much more wide perspective than Cosmos,

with a theme so haunting and thought-provoking that makes me really
think something important even without that famous picture captured
billions miles away.
Newspapers, TV coverages is often inundated by slogans like "We only
have one Earth", "Save the Earth", we are so familiar with that. But
unfortunately, most of us do not quite understand what's truly behind that.
And Dr. Sagan tells us all, we are here, in that point of pale light, a lonely
speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. He starts the book with this
humbling revelation.
But with its insignificance, it's also the respiratory of all our potential. We
touched moon with the rockets not yet designed when the project started,
we explored the whole Planet in the system, our spacecraft hit the comet
billions miles away, we healed our Ozone Layer, just as Dr. Sagan says,
we are still capable of greatness if we do not destroy ourselves first!(in
fact, if we can not handle our fallibility, our specie is hopeless)
Pale Blue Dot is the history of human beings in terms of exploration, the
very nature of us. Dr. Sagan perhaps gives hitherto the most precise
definition of our species in the book, it's about our inclination toward
mistakes, and more importantly, about our potential. We became the first
specie on Earth which has the ability to wipe itself out, but don't forget, we
are also the first to be able to leave Earth, to explore our future in the vast
cosmos, to handle space mountains. That is, according to Dr. Sagan, what
we should learn from that blue pixel in the sun beam.
Dr. Sagan passed away in 1996, before I started to read this book. When
we confront difficulties, when we are in trouble, I always recall the final
chapter of Cosmos, Who speaks for Earth. If not us, who will? As Dr.
Sagan says in Pale Blue Dot, "there is no hint that help will come from
elsewhere to save us from ourselves". And still I see that we are making
big progress, with the hard work of Al Gore, Bill Gates and others.
Everytime I think of that, I can feel that we do learn something from Dr.
Sagan, and, as Ann Druyan wrote in the epilogue of Billions and Billions,
"They allow me to feel.........that Carl lives."
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