BIO
Nick Sagan
As the son of acclaimed astronomer and science populariser Carl Sagan, it was always inevitable that Nick Sagan would have a strong link to space. Aged just six, he recorded a greeting for the Golden Record placed aboard both Voyager spacecraft in 1977 – should intelligent life come across it, they’ll hear: “Hello from the children of planet Earth.” As an adult he has written books and screenplays, developed video games and produced TV specials, most of which are strongly associated with science fiction. His sci-fi novels include Idlewild, Edenborn and Everfree.
As a child, were you aware you had a famous father?
There were certain signs that were hard to ignore. When I was in elementary school they would show episodes of in both my science and social studies classes, and I would sit there watching my dad talking to us on TV. I also had a very nice, if strange, upbringing where scientists and science-fiction writers would come to the house and we’d go to rocket launches and all that kind of stuff. But none of this seemed peculiar to me and it just seemed to be what the family did. It was
