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title: "Extraordinary Evidence"
date: 2003-11-09
author: "Richard MacManus"
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  - name: "ReadWriteWeb"
    url: "/category/readwriteweb.md"
tags:
  - name: "2003"
    url: "/tag/2003.md"
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# Extraordinary Evidence

It’s Day 8 and my word count is 14,778. [Here’s the latest](https://web.archive.org/web/20040310152355/http://www.readwriteweb.com/stories/2003/11/05/myNanowrimoNovelNovember2003.html#Day8). I took yesterday off. Have got a bit of flu, but the show must go on. I’m trying not to take my novel too seriously, having a bit of fun with it. Today I came up with the concept of “space blogs”. Heh.

**Extraordinary Evidence** is now the working title of my novel. I will probably change it later, because it’s been used quite often. It comes from the late great Carl Sagan. I read his novel *Contact* in the early 90’s I think and obviously it is an inspiration for my current project. As Mr Sagan said [in this interview](https://web.archive.org/web/20040310152355/http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/aliens/carlsagan.html): “…Precisely because of human fallibility, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”

*Originally published on ReadWriteWeb ([archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20020204040018/http://www.readwriteweb.com/2003/11/09.html#a146))*