skygiants

I can't help loving Contact -- or at least the book; I haven't actually seen the movie since I saw it twice, in theaters, when I was 12. Both book and movie were perfectly calibrated shameless wish-fulfillment for 12-year-old Alison. Even though I can see some of its weak points better now, I find it just compulsively readable: I last read it on a train trip and was totally immersed, apart from having to briefly get up and change in Penn Station.

I find it just charmingly naive that in Sagan's version of history, the influential mega-billionaire character made his fortune from (television) ad-blockers.

I was at some point generally wondering about Contact/Three Body Problem cross-over fanfiction: they're drawing from the same bag of tropes, and have female radio astronomer lead characters of about the same age, but the worldviews are so very different.