Carl Sagan’s 1985 novel Contact exhibits linear momentum as common ground is exhibited and promoted between religious and secular characters through the mutually shared ideals of humanism and the numinous—an experience of awe and wonder applicable to adherents of both religious and scientific ideologies. This essay’s aim is to explore how Contact represents the human, the non-human, and how its depictions of the non-human are affected by imminently ethnocentric thinking through the lens of posthumanist literary theory. The theories of Donna Haraway and André Kukla are drawn upon to better decipher and understand the outcomes of Sagan’s chosen narrative mechanisms.