The Terminator saga also has a television series.

The science fiction movie "Contact" was based on a book co-authored by Carl Sagan and his wife Ann Druyan.

Saga is the generic name for old Scandinavian legends, the majority of which were written in Iceland between the 12th and 15th century.

Carl Sagan gathered information about our planet onto a disk and sent it into space, so that other intelligent beings would find it.

The fighting is done, feasting begun, a saga well spun.

The sagacious serpent told the silly unicorn what to do.

Dr. Sagan suffered from a rare bone marrow disease called myelodysplasia.

Icelanders can read old sagas, but the writing and context have changed so much that they don't understand what the texts are about.

Meanwhile, another cruise ship, the Westerdam, finally docked Thursday in the Cambodian port of Sihanoukville, ending a two-week-long saga that saw the ship being turned away by Japan, Thailand, Taiwan and the Philippines due to unsubstantiated fears that someone on board had been infected.

It was the third year of Meiji when their family name was changed to Saga.