Intelligent Life in the Universe
by Carl Sagan, Iosif Shklovsky
Intelligent Life in the Universe is a book by Soviet astrophysicist Iosif Shklovsky and Carl Sagan, published by Holden-Day in San Francisco in 1966. It is a translated, extended and revised version of Shklovsky's 1962 Russian book Universe, Life, Intelligence, with Sagan as co-author.
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- Holden-Day, San Francisco, 1966
Intelligent Life in the Universe by Carl Sagan was first published in 1966. We track 2 editions.
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- 14 on Open Library, 7 in English
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Intelligent Life in the Universe by Carl Sagan, Iosif Shklovsky was first published in 1966.
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