Astronomer Dr. Ellie Arroway receives an encrypted message, apparently from a solar system many light-years away.

A sexy, funny, surreal, and devastating portrait of a beautiful twenty-eight-year-old astronomer who, having unexpectedly lost her job, is poised to make perhaps the first reckless decision of her life. Her story unfolds during an eighteen-hour period, on Halloween. Providing counsel on the fateful day are her husband, her father-in-law, three deceased relatives, a precocious nine-year-old trick-or-treater, her grandfather from Minot, North Dakota,...

It tells the story of a reserved English Astronomer who becomes ensnared by the mysterious Mary Ann and her creepy and dangerous comrades. Paranoia, the word conjures up so many things. On the day he arrives in the U.S. to teach at the university, paranoia roots itself into James Pond, a reserved Englishman, who is seduced and then trapped into a suburban Los Angeles house by the mysterious and alluring Mary Ann and her equally bizarre housemates....

Contact: Astronomer Dr. Ellie Arroway receives an encrypted message, apparently from a solar system many light-years away. Lost in space: The year is 2058. With the Earth's resources severely depleted human survival depends upon "The Jupiter Mission." This daring plan will launch an entire family-- the Robinsons-- into the farthest reaches of hyperspace to colonize "Alpha Prime, " the only other habitable planet in the galaxy. But when a stowaway...