You can view it as just fiction (although listed as non), or come to it with a very open mind. Cosmic Voyage: A Scientific Discovery of Extraterrestrials Visiting Earth Hardcover – January 1, 1996 Read 24 reviews from the world's largest community for readers.

The movie was inspired by Kees Boeke's lovely 1957 book, Cosmic View: The Universe in 40 Jumps. "Cosmic Voyage breaks new ground, takes us on an extraordinary journey into some of the deepest mysteries of alien contact and the human future, and leaves us -- above all -- with a powerful new tool for further exploration. Read reviews from world’s largest community for readers. It is a wonderful, audacious, and important book, and off the scale when it comes to compulsive, delightful, exciting reading." Whichever, remember that any book about alien contact is sure to sound way out there. The movie does the same thing, showing galaxies colliding. Personally, I was thoroughly interested and enthralled from start to finish. Cosmic Voyage to alot of people is just a bunch of "fluff". Cosmic Voyage (IMAX), 1996. The book shows the scale of everything, from the large scale of the universe, down to atomic nuclei, in 40 pictures, each a factor of 10 scale difference from the last. Cosmic Voyage book. The Cosmic Voyage book.