![]() ![]() This audio recording is part of the first draft of Carl Sagan's novel Contact. For example, listen to some of these digitized sections of an audio cassette that contains parts of Sagan's novel Contact and this dictated section of an exobiology grant proposal. ![]() These drafts, everything from grant proposals, correspondence, and his books and articles, were dictated to cassettes and transcribed. You will notice these drafts are not hand written, but are covered with cross outs and handwritten revisions. ![]() ![]() Each of those 20 drafts is heavily annotated with edits, revisions and changes. Carl Sagan was an extensive reviser of his work, for example, this digitized draft of Pale Blue Dot is the second of twenty full drafts in the archive. You can read and review some of Carl Sagan's drafts and ideas online in this collection including The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space, and his novel Contact. Early drafts are a way to understand how books developed in the minds of their creators. One of the most exciting things about collections of personal papers is the ability to review drafts and revisions of significant books and articles. Dictation, Transcription, Hand Edited Revision The Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan archive offers a rare opportunity to explore the writing and thinking process of one of the most prolific science writers of the 20th century. ![]()
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