The Evolution of Carl Sagan's Jacket

This page and pictures mirrored from The Carl Sagan Internet Resource Archive

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From the back cover of Cosmos, 1980. Notice the gold digital wristwatch on his left arm.

From the back cover of Sagan's science fiction novel, Contact, 1985. He's wearing the trademark brown turtleneck/jacket combination with the same wristwatch he had in 1980. (Note: Jodie Foster is set to star in the upcoming Contact movie)

From the back cover of Pale Blue Dot, 1994. Sagan is wearing the same leather jacket that he's owned for at least the past nine years, and the same wristwatch he's had for the past fourteen. For some reason, the editors of Pale Blue Dot felt it necessary to reverse his photograph (Either that, or it's really a picture of his beta unit, and the real Carl Sagan is now defending the Star League against Xur and the Kodan armada).

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