Dorion Sagan

Infotaula de personaDorion Sagan
Biografia
Naixement1959 Modifica el valor a Wikidata (64/65 anys)
Activitat
Ocupacióescriptor científic Modifica el valor a Wikidata
Família
ParesCarl Sagan Modifica el valor a Wikidata  i Lynn Margulis Modifica el valor a Wikidata
GermansJeremy Sagan, Nick Sagan i Sasha Sagan Modifica el valor a Wikidata

IMDB: nm2732191 Modifica el valor a Wikidata

Dorion Sagan (Madison, Wisconsin, 1959) és un autor, assagista, escriptor de ficció i filòsof nord-americà. Ha escrit i és coautor de llibres sobre cultura, evolució i història i filosofia de la ciència, incloent-hi Aprenent còsmic, Trencant el codi genètic del envelliment i Lynn Margulis: Vida i legat d'una científica rebel.[1] El seu llibre En el fred, coautor d'Eric D.Schneider, tracta sobre la relació entre termodinàmica no equilibrada i la seva vida.

Sagan és fill de l'astrònom Carl Sagan i la biòloga Lynn Margulis. Té quatre germans. El seu germà Nick Sagan és un escriptor de ciència-ficció.[2]

Bibliografia

Llibres
  • 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-autor amb 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-autor amb Eric D. Schneider

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

Col·laboracions amb altres autors

  • 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)
Assajos
  • "Möbius Trip: The Technosphere and Our Science Fiction Reality" Arxivat 2017-08-05 a Wayback Machine. 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. 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 [1])
  • "The Beast with Five Genomes" (2001 - with Lynn Margulis - Natural History June, 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], June/July, 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) [2]
Històries curtes
  • "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

Premis i 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 –)

Referències

  1. «Dorion Sagan».
  2. lecturalia.com. «Dorion Sagan: libros y biografía autor» (en castellà). [Consulta: 29 gener 2022].

Enllaços externs

  • Cabinet Magazine essays
  • Into the Cool website (as archived in 2014)
  • Sputnik Observatory Interviews Arxivat 2016-05-20 a Wayback Machine.
  • Biography page Arxivat 2013-11-24 a Wayback Machine., The Edge Foundation
  • Online audio interview with Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan
  • "Second Nature" (article)
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