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Carl Sagan did not set out to write an astronomy textbook so much as an origin story for human curiosity, dragging science out of the ivory tower and back into the realm of wonder. The table tangles over whether his prose is secular scripture or purple excess, before locking horns over whether cosmic insignificance crushes humanity or sets us free. It is a warm, spirited reckoning with the book that taught us to look upward and see ourselves.