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Dorion Sagan (born 1959) is an American essayist, fiction writer, poet, and theorist of ecology. He has written and co-authored books on culture, art, literature, evolution, and the history andphilosophy of science, includingCosmic Apprentice,Cracking the Aging Code, andLynn Margulis: The Life and Legacy of a Scientific Rebel (the last, about his mother).

His bookInto the Cool, co-authored with Eric D. Schneider, is about the relationship betweennon-equilibrium thermodynamics and life.

Sagan's works have been translated into 15 languages and are widely cited in critical theory sinceThe Nonhuman Turn, inNew materialism, and infeminist science studies.

Sagan is a son of astronomerCarl Sagan and biologistLynn Margulis. He has four siblings. His half-brotherNick Sagan is a science-fiction writer.

• Livro de seres invisiveis (2021)ISBN 9786588069035
• 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

• 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 SpaceISBN 978-0894901881 (1989)
• Mystery Dance: On the Evolution of Human SexualityISBN 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

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

• 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 - withJohn Skoyles)
• Within the Stone: Nature's Abstract Rock Art (2004 - partial text to book of photographs byBill Atkinson)
• Atheist Universe: The Thinking Person's Answer to Christian Fundamentalism (2006 - foreword to book byDavid Mills)
• Darwin's Unfinished Business: The Self-Organizing Intelligence of Nature (2011 - withSimon G Powell)

• "Möbius Trip: The Technosphere and Our Science Fiction Reality"Technosphere Magazine (2017)
• "Metametazoa: Biology and Multiplicity" (1992 - InIncorporations: Fragments for a History of the Human Body,Jonathan Crary andSanford 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" (2004Cabinet: A Quarterly of Art and Culture, pp. 23–27)
• "Gradient-Reduction Theory: Thermodynamics and the Purpose of Life" (2004 - with Jessica H. Whiteside. InScientists Debate Gaia: The Next CenturyMIT 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 EvolutionJohn B. Cobb Jr., Editor, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, pp. 145–156)
• "What is the Cultural Relevance of Bacteria?" (2009 -Sputnik Observatory)[2]

• "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

• First place, Silent Mora Ring 122International 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 –)

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

• Dorion Sagan atWordPress
• Cabinet Magazine essays
• Into the Cool website (as archived in 2014)
• Dorion Sagan atIMDb
• Sputnik Observatory InterviewsArchived 2016-05-20 at theWayback Machine
• Biography page, TheEdge Foundation
• Online audio interview with Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan
• "Second Nature" (article)
• Letters (discussing "Turing Gaia," the natural basis of teleology)Archived 2009-06-21 at theWayback Machine toOlivia Judson “Wild Side” column, topic “Heavy Weather,”The New York Times

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