She wrote six other New York Times bestselling books with Sagan, including Contact, which was adapted into the Oscar-nominated film of the same name. She has produced some of today’s most acclaimed science-based entertainment, is a partner to NASA and the Planetary Society, works as an interpreter of complex scientific discoveries, and was elected Secretary of the Federation of American Scientists for ten years. Through these stories, readers are transported to a hidden place where life may have begun on Earth, to the lost worlds of our ancestors-and, perhaps most exciting, to the possible worlds of our remote descendants.Īnn Druyan is one of the world’s most venerated women in science communication. These unsung heroes include the genius who sent a letter 50 years into the future that guided the successful Apollo mission to the moon the scientist who made contact with an ancient life-form that uses symbolic language to communicate and the scientist who, more than 200 years ago, exposed a logical hole in reality that remains unexplained today-despite Einstein’s best efforts. With depth and compassion, Druyan introduces readers to the brave and colorful characters who push beyond the boundaries of knowledge: little-known but monumental visionaries of the past. imagine a thrilling future that is still within our reach. The show explores some of the most enduring mysteries of our origins and dares to. In an endless quest for knowledge, this breathtaking book travels through 14 billion years of cosmic evolution and into an astonishing future. “Cosmos: Possible Worlds” offers a vision of the future we can still have if we have the wisdom and will to act on what scientists are telling us. -ANN DRUYAN You will meet new heroes who were willing to give up their lives rather than tell a lie. I hope “Cosmos: Possible Worlds” will awaken the widest possible global audience to the sacred searching at the heart of science.
The book is the companion to her new, third season of COSMOS which will premiere on National Geographic on March 9, 2020. Now, 40 years later, Ann Druyan boldly carries the torch forward with the long-awaited sequel to the book, COSMOS with COSMOS: POSSIBLE WORLDS (National Geographic Februhardcover $30.00), taking readers on further adventures through space and time, to worlds beyond and only now emerging with the advent of new scientific strategies for detection. The book sold more than 40 million copies worldwide, spent a year on the New York Times bestseller list, and is considered by the Library of Congress to be one of “88 books that shaped America.” In 1980, Carl Sagan and his wife Ann Druyan co-wrote what would become the most iconic science-based television series in history and its companion, one of the top-selling science books of all time-COSMOS.
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