Dorion Sagan
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- Science Writer, Author
DORION SAGAN A writer and sleight-of-hand
magician, Dorion has delivered reviews and essays on topics including
evolution, cybersex, and the biology of gender for publications such as The
New York Times, Bioscience, The Times Higher Supplement, Pabular, Umass,
Wired, Natural History, Coevolution Quarterly, The Smithsonian, The
Sciences, The Science Teacher, Whole Earth, Omni, The Environmentalist, The
Ecologist, Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, , and The New York Times Book
Review. He has contributed to philosophical works including Biology, Ethics,
and the Origins of Life (Jones and Bartlett, Boston) and Incorporations:
Fragments for a History of the Human Body (Zone, New York), as well as
science anthologies such as Evolution Extended (MIT Press) and The Biophilia
Hypothesis (Stephen R. Kellert and E. O. Wilson, eds.) His most recent
projects are Up From Dragons: The Evolution of Human Intelligence with
British neuroscientist John Skoyles (McGraw-Hill), and Into the Cool, a book
on life, complexity and thermodynamics with ecologist Eric D. Schneider.
Dorion's authored and coauthored books on
science include The Devil's Comic (greatunpublished.com), Origins of Sex:
Four Billion Years of Genetic Recombination (Yale University Press), Slanted
Truths: Essays on Gaia, Evolution and Symbiosis (Copernicus Books; Library
of Science Book Club main selection, July, 1997), The Diversity of Living
Organisms, (Blackwell Science, Oxford), What is Sex? (Simon & Schuster),
What is Life? (Foreword by Niles Eldredge; University of California Press,
2000, Simon & Schuster/Weidenfeld and Nicolson; a 1998 Global Business
Network Book Club Selection; "mind-altering masterpiece" Utne
Reader, "a masterpiece of science writing" Mitchell Tomashaw,
Orion), Microcosmos (Summit Books/Touchstone/University of California Press;
Alternate Book Selection, Macmillan Science/Nature Book Club, 1986; "A
seminal book" Ben Bova; "This admiring reader of Lewis Thomas,
Carl Sagan and Stephen Jay Gould has seldom, if ever, seen such a luminous
prose style in a work of this kind" Melvin Konner, The New York Times
Book Review; "One of the most important books in the history of
humanity" Amazon.com), Mystery Dance (Summit Books/Touchstone;
alternate selection, Book of the Month Club, exclusive selection, Quality
Paperback Bookclub), Garden of Microbial Delights (PrenticeHall/Kendall-Hunt),
and Biospheres: Metamorphosis of Planet Earth (McGraw-Hill/Penguin Books).
