Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium

Synopsis

New york times bestseller • in the final book of his astonishing career, carl sagan brilliantly examines the burning questions of our lives, our world, and the universe around us. These luminous, entertaining essays travel both the vastness of the cosmos and the intimacy of the human mind, posing such fascinating questions as how did the universe originate and how will it end, and how can we meld science and compassion to meet the challenges of the coming century? Here, too, is a rare, private glimpse of sagan’s thoughts about love, death, and god as he struggled with fatal disease.