SOURCE: A review of Pale Blue Dot, in Sky & Telescope, Vol. 89, No. 6, June. 1995. pp. 54-5.

In the following review, Clarke offers praise for Pale Blue Dot, but objects to Sagan's reference to Wernher von Braun as a "Nazi-American."

An honest reviewer must disclose any special interest, and in the case of this book I have several, starting with David Hardy's magnificent Marsscape on the dust jacket. A slightly different version appears on page 328, which was used for the jacket of my own book The Snows of Olympus: A Garden on Mars. Frankly, I'm not sure which I prefer: they're both beautiful, but there's a subtle distinction between the two paintings. Not only has the planet on the front of Pale Blue Dot been terra-formed, it's been mirror-imaged, presumably by rotation through the fourth dimension!

My friendship with Carl, who in Japan would be regarded as a national treasure...