Dorion Sagan

Dorion Sagan (born 1959) is an American author, essayist, fiction writer, and theorist from Madison, Wisconsin. He has written and co-authored books on culture, evolution, and the history and philosophy of science, including Cosmic Apprentice, Cracking the Aging Code, and Lynn Margulis: The Life and Legacy of a Scientific Rebel. His book Into the Cool, co-authored with Eric D. Schneider, is about the relationship between non-equilibrium thermodynamics and life.

Family

Sagan is the son of astronomer Carl Sagan and biologist Lynn Margulis. He has four siblings. His half-brother Nick Sagan is a science fiction writer.

Bibliography
Books
  • Cosmic Apprentice: Dispatches from the Edges of Science (2013) ISBN 978-0-8166-8135-8
  • Lynn Margulis: The Life and Legacy of a Scientific Rebel (2012, Sciencewriters Books) ISBN 1603584463
  • Death and Sex (two-in-one book with Tyler Volk, 2009) ISBN 1-60358-143-X
  • Biospheres: Metamorphosis of Planet Earth (1990) ISBN 0-07-054426-3
  • Notes from the Holocene: A Brief History of the Future (2007) ISBN 1-933392-32-0
  • Cooking with Jesus: From the Primal Brew to the Last Brunch (2001) ISBN 1-58898-160-6
  • The Sciences of Avatar (2010) ASIN B004089DDI

Co-written with Lynn Margulis

  • Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Evolution from Our Microbial Ancestors (1986) ISBN 0671441698
  • Origins of Sex : Three Billion Years of Genetic Recombination (1986) ISBN 978-0300046199
  • Garden of Microbial Delights: A Practical Guide to the Subvisible World (1988) ISBN 978-0787201364
  • Biospheres from Earth to Space ISBN 978-0894901881 (1989)
  • Mystery Dance: On the Evolution of Human Sexuality ISBN 978-0671792268 (1991)
  • What Is Sex? ISBN 978-0684826912 (1995)
  • What Is Life? (1995) ISBN 0684810875
  • Slanted Truths: Essays on Gaia, Symbiosis, and Evolution (1997)
  • Acquiring Genomes: A Theory of the Origins of Species (2002) ISBN 0465043925
  • Dazzle Gradually: Reflections on the Nature of Nature (2007) ISBN 1933392312

Co-written with Eric D. Schneider

  • Into the Cool: Energy Flow, Thermodynamics, and Life (2005) ISBN 0226739368

Co-written with others

  • 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)
Essays
Short Stories
  • "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

Awards and honors

  • First place, 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 –)
gollark: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_memory#Principles_of_operation (apparently it's weird transistors, not capacitors)
gollark: They use flash storage, which... has electrons stored in tiny capacitor things where the charge persists for ages, or something.
gollark: There's a new ATX12VO standard which drops everything but 12V because it's not used much, apparently.
gollark: For now it'd be neat if there were actually good AR glasses available. Google Glass got killed off, and there was this company called North doing similar stuff but... Google bought them and killed them off too.
gollark: Brains are very adaptable, so perhaps you could just dump data into some neurons in some useful format and hope it learns to decode it.

References
  • "Dorion Sagan." (June 15, 2005). Contemporary Authors Online. Retrieved May 20, 2007.
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