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In her writings, Druyan has stressed the idea that people can have a sense of awe and wonder about the unity of the cosmos without introducing the concept of a god.

Druyan wrote the books Comet and Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, as well as sections of The Demon-Haunted World, with her late husband Carl Sagan. In addition, she wrote an introduction to The Cosmic Connection and the epilogue to Billions and Billions, both by Sagan. Alone, she wrote the novel A Famous Broken Heart.

In the areas of film and television, she was one of the writers for the television series Cosmos, and a producer of the film Contact. Most recently, she is the CEO and a co-founder of Cosmos Studios. In 2007 she was said to be working on an IMAX film on global warming as well as a sequel to Cosmos.

She has served on the Board of Directors of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws NORML for over 10 years, and is also the current president of the NORML Foundation Board of Directors.

Other projects that she has been involved in include the selection of the music on the Voyager Golden Record mounted on the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 space probes, and the Cosmos 1 spacecraft, which intended to demonstrate solar sail propulsion. The Cosmos 1 used a former Soviet submarine missile as a launch vehicle (in keeping with the "swords into plowshares" philosophy) but due to a malfunction in separation, the Cosmos 1 never reached stable orbit.

In January 2007, she was a juror at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival in the jury responsible for selecting the winner of the Alfred P. Sloan Prize, given to films that focus on science and technology.

She attended and was a speaker at the Beyond Belief symposium in November 2006.]]> female 1949/06/13 17349 0345409469 9780345409461 262 <![CDATA[The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166806168m/17349.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166806168s/17349.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17349.The_Demon_Haunted_World_Science_as_a_Candle_in_the_Dark 4.33 2073
Casting a wide net through history and culture, Sagan examines and authoritatively debunks such celebrated fallacies of the past as witchcraft, faith healing, demons, and UFOs. And yet, disturbingly, in today's so-called information age, pseudoscience is burgeoning with stories of alien abduction, channeling past lives, and communal hallucinations commanding growing attention and respect. As Sagan demonstrates with lucid eloquence, the siren song of unreason is not just a cultural wrong turn but a dangerous plunge into darkness that threatens our most basic freedoms.]]> 10538 4.13 13458 1189 10537 4.30 2597 300 1995 7000390 0641952244 9780641952241 0 <![CDATA[The Varieties of Scientific Experience]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7000390-the-varieties-of-scientific-experience 0.0 0
Carl Sagan is considered one of the greatest scientific minds of our time. His remarkable ability to explain science in terms easily understandable to the layman in bestselling books such as Cosmos, The Dragons of Eden, and The Demon-Haunted World won him a Pulitzer Prize and placed him firmly next to Isaac Asimov, Stephen Jay Gould, and Oliver Sachs as one of the most important and enduring communicators of science. In December 2006 it will be the tenth anniversary of Sagan's death, and Ann Druyan, his widow and longtime collaborator, will mark the occasion by releasing Sagan's famous "Gifford Lectures in Natural Theology," The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God.

The chance to give the Gifford Lectures is an honor reserved for the most distinguished scientists and philosophers of our civilization. In 1985, on the grand occasion of the centennial of the lectureship, Carl Sagan was invited to give them. He took the opportunity to set down in detail his thoughts on the relationship between religion and science as well as to describe his own personal search to understand the nature of the sacred in the vastness of the cosmos.

The Varieties of Scientific Experience, edited, updated and with an introduction by Ann Druyan, is a bit like eavesdropping on a delightfully intimate conversation with the late great astronomer and astrophysicist. In his charmingly down-to-earth voice, Sagan easily discusses his views on topics ranging from manic depression and the possibly chemical nature of transcendance to creationism and so-called intelligent design to the likelihood of intelligent life on other planets to the likelihood of nuclear annihilation of our own to a new concept of science as "informed worship." Exhibiting a breadth of intellect nothing short of astounding, he illuminates his explanations with examples from cosmology, physics, philosophy, literature, psychology, cultural anthropology, mythology, theology, and more. Sagan's humorous, wise, and at times stunningly prophetic observations on some of the greatest mysteries of the cosmos have the invigorating effect of stimulating the intellect, exciting the imagination, and reawakening us to the grandeur of life in the cosmos.]]> 10538 4.13 13458 1189 10537 4.30 2597 300 2006 61662 0345384725 9780345384720 23 <![CDATA[Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223648233m/61662.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223648233s/61662.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61662.Shadows_of_Forgotten_Ancestors 4.27 302 FINANCIAL TIMES (LONDON)
World renowned scientist Carl Sagan and acclaimed author Ann Druyan have written a ROOTS for the human species, a lucid and riveting account of how humans got to be the way we are. It shows with humor and drama that many of our key traits--self-awareness, technology, family ties, submission to authority, hatred for those a little different from ourselves, reason, and ethics--are rooted in the deep past, and illuminated by our kinship with other animals. Astonishing in its scope, brilliant in its insights, and an absolutely compelling read, SHADOWS OF FORGOTTEN ANCESTORS is a triumph of popular science.]]> 10538 4.13 13458 1189 10537 4.30 2597 300 1992 296420 0345412222 9780345412225 6 <![CDATA[Comet]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173483077m/296420.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173483077s/296420.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/296420.Comet 3.83 86

Comet begins with a breathtaking journey through space astride a comet. Pulitzer Prize-winning astronomer Carl Sagan, author of Cosmos and Contact, and writer Ann Druyan explore the origin, nature, and future of comets, and the exotic myths and portents attached to them. The authors show how comets have spurred some of the great discoveries in the history of science and raise intriguing questions about these brilliant visitors from the interstellar dark.

Were the fates of the dinosaurs and the origins of humans tied to the wanderings of a comet? Are comets the building blocks from which worlds are formed?

Lavishly illustrated with photographs and specially commissioned full-color paintings, Comet is an enthralling adventure, indispensable for anyone who has ever gazed up at the heavens and wondered why.

"SIMPLY THE BEST."

 *The Times of London

"FASCINATING, EVOCATIVE, INSPIRING."

 *The Washington Post

"COMET HUMANIZES SCIENCE. A BEAUTIFUL, INTERESTING BOOK."

 *United Press International

"MASTERFUL . . . SCIENCE, POETRY, AND IMAGINATION."

 *The Atlanta Journal & Constitution

]]> 10538 4.13 13458 1189 10537 4.30 2597 300 1985 151691 0521783038 9780521783033 1 <![CDATA[Carl Sagan's Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172235701m/151691.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172235701s/151691.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/151691.Carl_Sagan_s_Cosmic_Connection_An_Extraterrestrial_Perspective 4.05 76 10538 4.13 13458 1189 160028 4.02 656 56 10537 4.30 2597 300 28948 3.93 260 34 64698 4.02 85 8 1973 844356 0394410475 9780394410470 0 <![CDATA[Murmurs of Earth: The Voyager Intersteller Record]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/844356.Murmurs_of_Earth_The_Voyager_Intersteller_Record 4.80 5 10538 4.13 13458 1189 10537 4.30 2597 300 1978 5411309 4 <![CDATA[The Varieties of Scientific Experience]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5411309.The_Varieties_of_Scientific_Experience 4.21 14 Cosmos, The Dragons of Eden, and The Demon-Haunted World won him a Pulitzer Prize and placed him firmly next to Isaac Asimov, Stephen Jay Gould, and Oliver Sachs as one of the most important and enduring communicators of science. In December 2006 it will be the tenth anniversary of Sagan's death, and Ann Druyan, his widow and longtime collaborator, will mark the occasion by releasing Sagan's famous "Gifford Lectures in Natural Theology," The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God. The chance to give the Gifford Lectures is an honor reserved for the most distinguished scientists and philosophers of our civilization. In 1985, on the grand occasion of the centennial of the lectureship, Carl Sagan was invited to give them. He took the opportunity to set down in detail his thoughts on the relationship between religion and science as well as to describe his own personal search to understand the nature of the sacred in the vastness of the cosmos. The Varieties of Scientific Experience, edited, updated and with an introduction by Ann Druyan, is a bit like eavesdropping on a delightfully intimate conversation with the late great astronomer and astrophysicist. In his charmingly down-to-earth voice, Sagan easily discusses his views on topics ranging from manic depression and the possibly chemical nature of transcendance to creationism and so-called intelligent design to the likelihood of intelligent life on other planets to the likelihood of nuclear annihilation of our own to a new concept of science as "informed worship." Exhibiting a breadth of intellect nothing short of astounding, he illuminates his explanations with examples from cosmology, physics, philosophy, literature, psychology, cultural anthropology, mythology, theology, and more. Sagan's humorous, wise, and at times stunningly prophetic observations on some of the greatest mysteries of the cosmos have the invigorating effect of stimulating the intellect, exciting the imagination, and reawakening us to the grandeur of life in the cosmos." ]]> 10537 4.30 2597 300 2007 176746 0883730758 9780883730751 0 <![CDATA[A famous broken heart: A fantasy novel]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/176746.A_famous_broken_heart_A_fantasy_novel 4.00 1 10537 4.30 2597 300 1977 3857889 0439793084 9780439793087 0 <![CDATA[Passport to the Universe]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3857889.Passport_to_the_Universe 0.0 0 10537 4.30 2597 300 2006