Carl Sagan's novel about contact with extraterrestrial intelligence was made into a movie with Jodie Foster as Ellie. Ellie is into astronomy as a girl and pursues her passion as an adult, working for SETI. Contact is made, and a machine is built according to instructions sent by aliens. Ellie is transported through a wormhole to Vega. She encounters an alien whom she perceives as her deceased father. The ending is inconclusive, which again shows we cannot seek reality in science fiction. Foster achieved notoriety when John Hinckley, the man who shot Ronald Reagan, said he did it to get her attention. Sagan got famous appearing with Johnny Carson. His Cosmos series led to dinosaurs and politics.