Carl Sagan’s Contact combines science fiction with philosophical inquiry in an appealing mix. In a large interstellar wave, on the ship that she had led the colonists whom she led to the outer planets aboard, Christina ‘Chris’jen Anders finds out something that goes against everything she has ever been told. And still while science is the brilliance of the scientific detail and emotional depth of this novel, this novel explores the idea of our intersections of faith, of science, of the search for meaning.