◾️Contact - Volume 1 & 2 Set Hiroshi Takami / Carl Sagan / Okyo Ike Price: ¥440 (at the time) Shinchosha Bunko, August 1989, 2nd printing These are slightly older books, stored at home. While there are no noticeable damages such as folds or stains on the inside or outside, there is some yellowing on the pages and edges due to aging. It's relatively minor and shouldn't affect readability. I believe they are in relatively good condition for used books, but please consider this before purchasing. ◆Contents One day at the end of the 20th century, an observatory in the New Mexico desert picked up a strange radio signal. It was a vast prime number sequence, and the source was determined to be a planet in the Vega system, 26 light-years away. This was the moment Ellie, the head of the extraterrestrial intelligence research organization "Argus," had been waiting for. Experts from around the world cooperated, and the signal was finally visualized, but what appeared on the screen was surprisingly unexpected... A debut novel by a famous astronomer. To decipher the "message" received from the Vega system, knowledge from around the world was mobilized. Eventually, it was revealed to be a blueprint for a machine. With the cooperation of the entire world once again, the "machine" was built, and Ellie and five other representatives of Earth set off for Vega. With contact with an advanced civilization in space as its theme, and based on the latest scientific information, the author's outstanding imagination unfolds in a grand epic. #HiroshiTakami #CarlSagan #OkyoIke #Books #ForeignLiterature/Novels&Stories