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Beginning in 2009, a musical project known as [[Symphony of Science]] sampled several excerpts of Sagan from his series ''Cosmos'' and remixed them to [[electronic music]]. To date, the videos have received over 21&nbsp;million views worldwide on YouTube.<ref>{{cite AV media |people=Boswell, John |date=November 9, 2009 |title=A Glorious Dawn |medium=[[Gramophone record#Common formats|7-in (17.5&nbsp;cm) gramophone record]] |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211124/zSgiXGELjbc |archive-date=November 24, 2021 |url-status=live |access-date=September 3, 2013 |publisher=[[Third Man Records]] |location=Nashville, TN}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

In the 2011 video game ''[[Back to the Future: The Game]], "Carl Sagan"'' is the alias adopted by [[Emmett Brown]] when he inis in 1931. A voice sample of Sagan talking about time travel was also featured in the game. Sagan was apparently a fan of ''[[Back to the Future (franchise)|Back to the Future]]'', and once told Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale that he thought ''[[Back to the Future Part II]]'' was "the best movie ever made based on the science of time travel."<ref>''Back to the Future Part II Feature Commentary with Bob Gale and Neil Canton''.</ref>

The 2014 Swedish science fiction short film ''[[Wanderers (short film)|Wanderers]]'' uses excerpts of Sagan's narration in 1994 of his book ''Pale Blue Dot'', played over digitally-created visuals of humanity's possible future expansion into outer space.<ref>{{cite news |last=D'Orazio |first=Dante |date=November 30, 2014 |title=Wonderful short film imagines the day when we conquer the solar system |url=https://www.theverge.com/2014/11/30/7310433/wanderers-sci-fi-short-film-imagines-when-humans-conquer-the-solar-system |newspaper=The Verge |access-date=February 19, 2016 |archive-date=December 3, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141203030509/https://www.theverge.com/2014/11/30/7310433/wanderers-sci-fi-short-film-imagines-when-humans-conquer-the-solar-system |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=David |first=Leonard |date=December 1, 2014 |title=Epic Short Film 'Wanderers' Envisions Humanity's Future in Space |url=http://www.space.com/27895-wanderers-science-fiction-short-film.html |location=Space.com |access-date=February 21, 2016 |archive-date=February 11, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160211170146/http://www.space.com/27895-wanderers-science-fiction-short-film.html |url-status=live}}</ref>