Dorion Sagan

Dorion Sagan, (1959) Amerikalı yazar ve teorisyendir. Cosmic Apprentice, Cracking the Aging Code ve Lynn Margulis: The Life ve Legacy of a Scientific Rebel dahil olmak üzere kültür, evrim ve bilim tarihi ve felsefesi üzerine kitaplar yazmış ve ortak yazarlardan biridir. Eric D. Schneider ile birlikte yazdığı Into the Cool adlı kitabı, dengesizlik termodinamiği ve yaşam arasındaki ilişki hakkındadır.
Kişisel yaşamı
Sagan, gök bilimci Carl Sagan ve biyolog Lynn Margulis'in oğludur. 4 kardeşi vardır. Üvey kardeşi Nick Sagan bilimkurgu yazarıdır.
Bibliyografya
Kitaplar
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 (two-in-one book with 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)
Lynn Margulis ile birlikte
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)
Eric D. Schneider ile birlikte
Into the Cool: Energy Flow, Thermodynamics, and Life (2005)
Diğerleri ile birlikte
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 - with John Skoyles)
Within the Stone: Nature's Abstract Rock Art (2004 - partial text to book of photographs by Bill Atkinson)
Atheist Universe: The Thinking Person's Answer to Christian Fundamentalism (2006 - foreword to book by David Mills)
Darwin's Unfinished Business: The Self-Organizing Intelligence of Nature (2011 - with Simon G Powell)
Makaleler
"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 and Sanford Kwinter, editors, Zone, pp. 362385)
"Partial closure: Dorion Sagan reflects on Carl" (1997 - Whole Earth, summer, pp. 3437)
"Gender Specifics: Why Women Aren't Men" (1998 - The New York Times )
"The Beast with Five Genomes" (2001 - with Lynn Margulis - Natural History June, pp. 3841)
"The Postman Already Always Rings Twice: Fragments for an Understanding of the Future" (2004 Cabinet: A Quarterly of Art and Culture, pp. 2327)
"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], June/July, pp. 5055)
"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. 145156)
"What is the Cultural Relevance of Bacteria?" (2009 - Sputnik Observatory)
Kısa hikayeler
"The Tchaikovsky Dream Continuum" Cabinet, Issue 54 The Accident (Summer 2014)
"The New Age Witch" (1993) After Hours, #19, summer, pp. 3645
"Loves Strangers" (2006) Meat for Tea: The Northampton Review, summer, Vol. 1, Issue 3, "Flesh," pp. 310
"Semi-Naked" (2006) Meat for Tea: The Northampton Review, winter, Vol. 1, Issue 1, "Gristle," pp. 524
Ödüller
Silent Mora Ring 122 International Brotherhood of Magicians 1974
EdPress Excellence in Educational Journalism Award, Nonprofit National 1986
Humana Scholarship Centre College Danville, Kentucky (2003)
Lindisfarne Fellowship Lindisfarne (2008 )
Advisory Board Sputnik Inc (2009 )