From Cervantes’ Dark Spain To Sagan’s Light-Filled Vega: How Don Quixote Gave Birth To Contact
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Miguel de Cervantes’ 17th-century masterpiece Don Quixote is many things—the most translated non-religious book in history, arguably the first modern novel—but what it has yet to be classified as is a work of science fiction. This presentation argues that Don Quixote’s momentous descent into the tenebrous Cave of Montesinos sheds a much-needed light on Dr. Eleanor Arroway’s voyage to the star Vega in Contact almost four hundred years later.
