Contact vs The Voyage of the Space Beagle: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Human-alien encounters, Interplanetary voyages, Extraterrestrial beings, Life on other planets, Science Fiction, Fiction
Contact
“By human standards it could not possibly have been artificial: It was the size of a world.”
In December, 1999, a multinational team journeys out to the stars, to the most awesome encounter in human history. Who -- or what -- is out there? In Cosmos, Carl Sagan explained the universe. In Contact, he predicts…
1 film adaptation
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The Voyage of the Space Beagle
One of the great original classics of modern SF returns! An all-time classic space saga, The Voyage of the Space Beagle is one of the pinnacles of Golden Age SF, an influence on generations of stories. An episodic…
The verdict
- Ratings are close across the board — any is a safe pick by score.
- The Voyage of the Space Beagle is the quickest read — about 3 hours vs 8 for Contact.
- Contact has the widest readership — 572 ratings behind its score.
Scores by source
| Contact | The Voyage of the Space Beagle | |
|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 4.1 (572) | — |
| Google Books | 4.0 (21) | 5.0 (1) |
| Apple Books | 4.0 (11) | 4.5 (22) |
Reception
| Contact | The Voyage of the Space Beagle | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 572 | 22 |
| Editions | 50 | 18 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Wikipedia attention | 9565 | 1190 |
| Pages | 432 | 192 |