I want to read a book about the Voyager Record

October 19, 2018 11:15 AM

I was looking through a gallery of the images sent from Earth on the Voyager Record and it took my breath away. I'd love to read a book that talked about the history of the Record- how they picked the images, what each image is, explanations of everything- and if it talked about the audio choices and stuff as well then that's great too. What's the best book written about the Voyager Record?
posted by DynamiteToast to Science & Nature (4 answers total)

Best answer: Murmurs of Earth by Carl Sagan is the definitive book on the subject (not like I've seen any others). If my memory serves me correctly he goes into quite a bit of detail about the things you're interested in. There was an edition of the book in the 90s that came with a double-CD set of the Record's contents.
posted by neckro23 at 11:42 AM on October 19, 2018 [6 favorites]

Response by poster: Ha in all my googling and looking at different options I never noticed the author. This is almost certainly exactly what I want, thanks!
posted by DynamiteToast at 2:51 PM on October 19, 2018

There was a Kickstarter in 2017 for an anniversary Voyager project that also had a book, though that Sagan book is likely much more informative.
posted by the letter at 11:04 PM on October 19, 2018

There's this
posted by SystematicAbuse at 7:13 AM on October 23, 2018