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Title: The Listeners by James E. Gunn, James Gunn, Thomas Pierson, Freeman J. Dyson ISBN: 1-932100-12-1 Publisher: BenBella Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 2004 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (4 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Better than Contact???
Comment: I can't tell you if James Gunn's 'The Listeners' is better than 'Contact' simply because I haven't read Carl Sagan's book. But I have read Gunn's, and I can say that Sagan would have to have moved several planets in order to come close to the quality of 'The Listeners.'

Scientist Robert MacDonald is the director of "The Project," a study of sounds coming from the stars. MacDonald firmly believes that life is out there and that intelligent beings will eventually communicate with humans. He and others like him have been listening for over 50 years, but they've heard only silence. Until now.

A cryptic message arrives, but what does it mean? With the threat of the project being shut down, MacDonald desperately seeks to keep his vision alive, but the cost is high.

'The Listeners' is much more than just a "first contact" story. The writing is excellent and the drama is far above what you would expect. The more we learn about communicating with other beings, the more we find we don't know about communicating with each other. An excellent read.

240 pages

Rating: 5
Summary: I Was Always Mad At Sagan
Comment: I read the Listeners when I was in college in the 80s. The edition I read had a forward written by Carl Sagan. The book was truly visionary and insightful. Some years later Contact came out and I was amazed at how Sagan had comletely stolen Mr. Gunn's plot. What really purturbed me was that nowhere in the credits did Mr. Sagan even mention James Gunn. It just seemed to me that Sagan just stood by and took credit for the entire story. To Mr. Gunn: The Listeners is a much better story than Contact! Thanks.

Rating: 5
Summary: Wow! Another All-Time Great Sci-Fi Novel!
Comment: On a desperate hunt one summer day for that science-fiction rarity -- a sci-fi story that followed actual scientific laws and did not try my intelligence and patience, I accidentally discovered two books at a used book store. One of these books was Wine of the Dreamers; the other novel was The Listeners. I read them both- and fell in love with them both.

I was in heaven that late summer. This was real science fiction. These books were fantastic! There were no "starships" or "Deathstars." There were only well-drawn, complex, and brilliant characters using their scientific and technical gifts.Obviously, as one reviewer had already observed, this "first contact" novel was the inspiration for Carl Sagan's work "Contact." In my opinion, "The Listeners" is the better-written book, even though I will always remain a huge fan of the late - and forever great -