The release date for the English version of 'The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark' by
Carl Sagan is Feb 1997. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Without being able to distinguish between the verifiable theories of science and the fallacies of pseudoscience, how are we going to be able to make informed judgments about our lives, which are becoming more and more dependent on technology? Carl Sagan, a renowned astronomer and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, contends that scientific thought is essential to our democratic institutions' survival as well as the quest of truth.
Using a broad lens to look at history and society, Sagan investigates and credibly disproves well-known historical myths including witchcraft, faith healing, demons, and unidentified flying objects. Unsettlingly, however, pseudoscience is booming in the so-called information age of today, with claims of past-life channeling, extraterrestrial abduction, and collective hallucinations garnering more and more respect and attention. The alluring melody of unreason is not simply a cultural misstep, but also a dangerous descent into darkness that jeopardizes our most fundamental liberties, as Sagan persuasively and clearly illustrates.