Martin Rundkvist on Nostr: Earth-parochial plot hole in Carl Sagan's 1985 novel "Contact": the aliens contact us ...
Earth-parochial plot hole in Carl Sagan's 1985 novel "Contact": the aliens contact us because they've seen a 1936 TV broadcast of Hitler that worries them.
a) How could they tell what a human who might mess up human politics looks like?
b) Why would super-high-tech aliens care about WW2 and the Holocaust? They're not Jesus.
#scifi #books
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