Dorion Sagan, nado en 1959, é un autor, ensaísta, escritor de ficción e teórico norteamericano de Madison, Wisconsin. Escribiu e é coautor de libros sobre cultura, evolución, historia e filosofía da ciencia.
Vida persoal Dorion é fillo do físico Carl Sagan e da bióloga Lynn Margulis, irmán do empresario Jeremy Sagan, e medio irmán do escritor Nick Sagan (fillo de Linda Salzman) e da cineasta Sasha Sagan e Samuel Sagan (fillos de Ann Druyan).
Obra escrita Libros
Cosmic Apprentice: Dispatches from the Edges of Science (2013) Lynn Margulis: The Life and Legacy of a Scientific Rebel (2012, Sciencewriters Books) Death and Sex (libro dous en un con Tyler Volk, 2009) Biospheres: Metamorphosis of Planet Earth (1990) Notes from the Holocene: A Brief History of the Future (2007) Cooking with Jesus: From the Primal Brew to the Last Brunch (2001) The Sciences of Avatar (2010)
Co-escrito con Lynn Margulis Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Evolution from Our Microbial Ancestors (1986) Origins of Sex : Three Billion Years of Genetic Recombination (1986) Garden of Microbial Delights: A Practical Guide to the Subvisible World (1988) Biospheres from Earth to Space (1989) Mystery Dance: On the Evolution of Human Sexuality (1991) What Is Sex? (1995) What Is Life? (1995) Slanted Truths: Essays on Gaia, Symbiosis, and Evolution (1997) Acquiring Genomes: A Theory of the Origins of Species (2002) Dazzle Gradually: Reflections on the Nature of Nature (2007)
Co-escrito con Eric D. Schneider Into the Cool: Energy Flow, Thermodynamics, and Life (2005)
Co-escrito con outros Cracking the Aging Code: The New Science of Growing Old - And What It Means for Staying Young (2016 - with Josh Mitteldorf) Up From Dragons: The Evolution of Human Intelligence (2002 - con John Skoyles) Within the Stone: Nature's Abstract Rock Art (2004 - texto parcial a libro de fotografías de Bill Atkinson) Atheist Universe: The Thinking Person's Answer to Christian Fundamentalism (2006 - prefacio a libro de David Mills) Darwin's Unfinished Business: The Self-Organizing Intelligence of Nature (2011 - con Simon G Powell)
Ensaios
"Möbius Trip: The Technosphere and Our Science Fiction Reality" Technosphere Magazine (2017) "Metametazoa: Biology and Multiplicity" (1992 - In Incorporations: Fragments for a History of the Human Body, Jonathan Crary e Sanford Kwinter, editores, Zone, pp. 362–385) "Partial closure: Dorion Sagan reflects on Carl" (1997 - Whole Earth, summer, pp. 34–37) "Gender Specifics: Why Women Aren't Men" (1998 - The New York Times ) "The Beast with Five Genomes" (2001 - con Lynn Margulis - Natural History, xuño, pp. 38–41) "The Postman Already Always Rings Twice: Fragments for an Understanding of the Future" (2004 Cabinet: A Quarterly of Art and Culture, pp. 23–27) "Gradient-Reduction Theory: Thermodynamics and the Purpose of Life" (2004 - with Jessica H. Whiteside. In Scientists Debate Gaia: The Next Century MIT Press) "A Brief History of Sex" (2007 - Cosmos [Australia], xuño/xullo, pp. 50–55) "Evolution, Complexity, and Energy Flow" (2008 - Back to Darwin: A Richer Account of Evolution John B. Cobb Jr., Editor, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, pp. 145–156) "What is the Cultural Relevance of Bacteria?" (2009 - Sputnik Observatory)
Historias curtas
"The Tchaikovsky Dream Continuum" Cabinet, Issue 54 The Accident (Summer 2014) "The New Age Witch" (1993) After Hours, #19, summer, pp. 36–45 "Love’s Strangers" (2006) Meat for Tea: The Northampton Review, summer, Vol. 1, Issue 3, "Flesh," pp. 3–10 "Semi-Naked" (2006) Meat for Tea: The Northampton Review, winter, Vol. 1, Issue 1, "Gristle," pp. 5–24
Notas
"Dorion Sagan." (15 de xuño de 2005). Contemporary Authors Online. Consultado o 20 de maio de 2007.
Véxase tamén Ligazóns externas Sputnik Observatory Interviews (en inglés) Biografía, en Edge Foundation (en inglés) A termodinámica da vida. (en castelán) Artigo onde explican o sentido do libro. Ensaios en Cabinet Magazine (en inglés) Web de Into the Cool (arquivada en 2014) Entrevistas no Sputnik Observatory (en inglés) Son da entrevista con Dorion Sagan a súa nai L. Margulis "Second Nature" (artigo en inglés) Letters (discutindo "Turing Gaia," as bases naturais da teoloxía) a Olivia Judson, columna “Wild Side / Heavy Weather,” no The New York Times
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