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Carl Sagan’s Cosmos inspires audiences to look at the universe with new eyes and to appreciate humanity’s importance in it. Sagan’s deft use of rhetorical strategy creates an experience that pushes beyond the limits of a mere “educational” program to reveal a mythic adventure. Although Sagan contributed much to the field of science as well as to public understanding of it, Cosmos remains his signature brand. Cosmos and the Rhetoric of Popular Science builds on Thomas M. Lessl’s observations regarding Cosmos’ connection to the mythic and science fiction. It delves deeply into Sagan’s rhetorical construction of the program in order to understand what elements contributed to its mythos.

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In an era of attacks upon science and the proliferation of alternative facts, Karen Schroeder Sorensen's new book is important for social reasons. It is also valuable to scholars of communication, rhetoric, and the hard sciences. In this volume she explores ways in which science is popularized while retaining its integrity. Her focal object of study, the Cosmos series, is an excellent example of the popularized communication of scientific knowledge. This will be indispensable in every library. -- Barry Brummett, University of Texas at Austin

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Karen Schroeder Sorensen is assistant professor and coordinator of the Writing Across the Curriculum program at Winona State University.

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