Murmurs of Earth: The Voyager Interstellar Record

by Carl Sagan et al. (1978). In 1977, NASA’s two Voyager spacecraft launched into deep space carrying golden phonograph records containing speech, music, and digitized photos assembled by Sagan’s team. To represent all of Earth through 118 stock photos is obviously an impossible task, but they took it seriously, and this book documents the pictures they chose and the fascinating reasoning behind them.

fall apart? It’s a thoughtful reflection on how humans have altered the world.