Making Contact

Sarah Scoles is a science writer whose work has appeared in The Atlantic, Slate, Smithsonian, The Washington Post, Scientific American, Popular Science, Discover, New Scientist, Aeon, and Wired. A former editor at Astronomy magazine, Scoles worked at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, the location of the first-ever SETI project. She lives in Denver, Colorado.

“... written with tremendous energy... [Making Contact's] real strength comes from its depiction of a strange, unreal world where astronomy, science fiction, psychology and politics all collide and have high powered meetings and conferences.”