Dorion Sagan

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.

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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

Categoría:Escritores dos Estados Unidos de América
Categoría:Termodinámica
Categoría:Cosmoloxía física
Categoría:Ecoloxía teórica
Categoría:Nados en 1959