Along with Carl Sagan and Steven Soter, Druyan was one of the three writers of the TV series COSMOS and a producer for the motion picture CONTACT.

In 2009, she distributed a series of podcasts called At Home in the Cosmos with Annie Druyan in which she described the life of husband, Carl Sagan, her works, and their marriage.

In July, 1983, BBC Radio 4 broadcast the 45-minute documentary Music from a Small Planet, in which Sagan and Druyan explained the process of selecting music for the record and introduced excerpts.

One of the tracks, a recording of " Izlel je Delyo Hajdutin ", was included by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan on the Voyager Golden Record.

* Comet ( book ), a popular-science book by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan

Ann Druyan ( born June 13, 1949 ) is an American author and producer specializing in productions about cosmology and popular science.

In 2011, it was announced that Druyan would be part of the writing and production teams for a sequel to COSMOS, to be called Cosmos: A space-time Odyssey, which is expected to be telecast in 2013.

Druyan was responsible for the selection of the music on the Voyager Golden Record for the pioneering exploratory missions of the Solar System — Voyager 1 and Voyager 2.

Drake, Ann Druyan, Timothy Ferris, Jon Lomberg, and Linda Salzman.

Sagan is known for his popular science books and for the award-winning 1980 television series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, which he narrated and co-wrote.

The Bussard ramjet is a theoretical method of spacecraft propulsion proposed in 1960 by the physicist Robert W. Bussard, popularized by Poul Andersons novel Tau Zero, Larry Niven in his Known Space series of books, Vernor Vinge in his Zones of Thought series, and referred to by Carl Sagan in the television series and book Cosmos.

The collection included books inscribed by fellow writers, such as Isaac Asimov and Carl Sagan, as well as de Camp himself.

In addition to literary criticism, Joshi has also edited books on atheism and social relations, including Documents of American Prejudice ( 1999 ), an annotated collection of American racist writings ; In Her Place ( 2006 ), which collects written examples of prejudice against women ; and Atheism: A Reader ( 2000 ), which collects atheistic writings by such people as Antony Flew, George Eliot, Bertrand Russell, Emma Goldman, Gore Vidal and Carl Sagan, among others.

Scientist Carl Sagan read the books as a young boy, and they continued to affect his imagination into his adult years ; he remembered Barsoom as a " world of ruined cities, planet girding canals, immense pumping stations — a feudal technological society ".

The phrase has been used as the title of several books, including the novels Salad Days by Francoise Sagan and by Charles Romalotti, the autobiography The Salad Days by Douglas Fairbanks Jr., and numerous cookbooks.

Other books by Carl Sagan including Don's work are Comet and Pale Blue Dot.

Carl Sagan in his book Comet ( 1985 ) reproduces Han period Chinese manuscript ( the Book of Silk, 2nd century BC ) that shows comet tail varieties: most are variations on simple comet tails, but the last shows the comet nucleus with four bent arms extending from it, recalling a swastika.

* The concept is discussed in Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan's 1985 non-fiction book Comet, and several paintings of Dyson trees around Saturn and in interstellar space are provided in the book by Jon Lomberg.

In his later years as a writer and scientist, Sagan would often draw on his childhood memories to illustrate scientific points, as he did in his book, Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors.

* Loren Kruger, Lights and Shadows: The Autobiography of Leontine Sagan ( Johannesburg, South Africa: Witwatersand University Press, 1996 )

* Margulis, Lynn, and Dorion Sagan, 1987, Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Evolution from Our Microbial Ancestors, HarperCollins, ISBN 0-04-570015-X

The particles were never observed to rise above 6 km and when combined with scavenging by clouds gave the smoke a short residency time in the atmosphere and localized its effects ; Professor Carl Sagan of the Turco, Toon, Ackerman, Pollack, Sagan ( TTAPS ) study hypothesized in January 1991 that enough smoke from the fires " might get so high as to disrupt agriculture in much of South Asia ...." Sagan later conceded in his book The Demon-Haunted World that this prediction did not turn out to be correct: " it was pitch black at noon and temperatures dropped 4 °– 6 ° C over the Persian Gulf, but not much smoke reached stratospheric altitudes and Asia was spared.

Carl Sagan referred to examples apparently from Stevenson's investigations in his book The Demon-Haunted World as an example of carefully collected empirical data, though he rejected reincarnation as a parsimonious explanation for the stories.

* Carl Sagan writes at length about Teller's career in chapter 16 of his book The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark ( Headline, 1996 ), p. 268-274.

* Sagan, Carl, " The Demon-Haunted World: Science As a Candle in the Dark ".

* Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

* Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, 1995, Random House, ISBN 0-394-53512-X, page 90.

In the essay The Dragon in my Garage from the book The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle In the Dark, Carl Sagan uses the example of an invisible dragon breathing heatless fire that someone claims lives in his garage.

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark is a book by astrophysicist Carl Sagan, which was first published in 1995.

* Sagan, Carl, " The Demon-Haunted World: Science As a Candle in the Dark ".

Even in modern Western cultures, many people see supernatural forces behind every event, as described by Carl Sagan in his book The Demon-Haunted World.

Carl Sagan in The Demon-Haunted World says that he was " lucky enough " to have studied under Hutchins, " where science was presented as an integral part of the gorgeous tapestry of human knowledge.

* Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark ( NY: Ballantine Books, 1996 ), ISBN 0-345-40946-9

Sagan traced his later analytical urges to his mother, a woman who had known " extreme poverty as a child ", and had grown up almost homeless in New York City during World War I and the 1920s.

* Sagan, Dorion, and Lynn Margulis, 1993, The Garden of Microbial Delights: A Practical Guide to the Subvisible World, Kendall / Hunt, ISBN 0-8403-8529-3

* The Cold and the Dark: The World after Nuclear War ( 1984, co-authored with Carl Sagan, Donald Kennedy, and Walter Orr Roberts )

The double title ( a prince and a duc ) both Prussian and French, served to render the duc de Sagan a neutral party in World War II: his Château de Valençay provided a safe haven for treasures of the Louvre during the German occupation of France.

The ecosphere was reviewed by Carl Sagan in a 1986 Parade magazine article entitled " The World That Came in the Mail.

Astronomer Carl Sagan declined to sign the statement.

Sagan said he took this stance not because he thought astrology had any validity, but because he thought that the tone of the statement was authoritarian, and that dismissing astrology because there was no mechanism ( while " certainly a relevant point ") was not in itself convincing.

In a letter published in a follow-up edition of The Humanist, Sagan confirmed that he would have been willing to sign such a statement had it described and refuted the principal tenets of astrological belief.

She made substantial contributions to the PBS documentary series Cosmos and was the third wife of the late Carl Sagan.

Carl Edward Sagan (; November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996 ) was an American astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, science popularizer, and science communicator in astronomy and natural sciences.

Sagan wrote the novel Contact, the basis for a 1997 film of the same name.

His father, Sam Sagan, was an immigrant garment worker from Russia.

Sagan graduated from Rahway High School in Rahway, New Jersey, in 1951.

According to Sagan, they were Reform Jews, the more liberal of Judaism's three main groups.

Sagan recalls that one of his best experiences was when he was four or five years old, his parents took him to the 1939 New York World's Fair.

As an adult, Sagan and his colleagues created similar time capsules, but ones that would be sent out into the galaxy.

Sagan, however, was generally unaware of the details of the ongoing war.

Sagan recalled taking his first trips to the public library alone, at the age of five, when his mother got him a library card.

According to biographer Ray Spangenburg, these early years as Sagan tried to understand the mysteries of the planets, became a " driving force in his life, a continual spark to his intellect, and a quest that would never be forgotten.

During his time as an honors program undergraduate, Sagan worked in the laboratory of the geneticist H. J. Muller and wrote a thesis on the origins of life with physical chemist H. C. Urey.