Nick Sagan

Nick Sagan ( born September 16, 1970 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American novelist and screenwriter.

Biography

Nick Sagan is the son of astronomer Carl Sagan and was involved as early as age seven years to a memorable performance.

In 1977, the space probes Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 were sent into space, a plate was also sent, should be submitted by the sounds of the earth, music and recordings, as well as greetings to any existing aliens. On this Voyager Golden Record could hear the voice of a boy who spoke the sentence: " Hello, from the children of planet Earth! " This boy was Nicholas Sagan.

Sagan, who attended the Mirman School in Bel Air for gifted children, did not occur, and left high school to study at the University of California at Los Angeles film in his father's footsteps. He completed his studies summa cum laude. He worked in the result for various film producers and studios, including Paramount, Warner Bros., Disney, New Line and Universal.

1992 his first screenplay for a U.S. animated series was produced. Although Sagan also wrote for other series ( including an episode of the broadcast in Germany SF series Space Cops - Crime Scene Demeter City ), remained seven screenplays, which he for Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: wrote spaceship Voyager, the known. He was also on the computer games Zork: Nemesis ( 1996) and OurColony (2005) instrumental.

Nicholas Sagan also writes science fiction novels. In German only so far Idlewild (English title: The End ) was published.

He is married but has no children.

Trivia

A tribute paid him Roland Emmerich in the context of his film in 2012 by letting write the foreword to the ( fictional) novel Farewell Atlantis of the protagonist Jackson Curtis of a certain Nick Sagan.

Works

TV work

  • Star Trek: The Next Generation ( seventh season, 1993-1994) " Attached " (Eng. contacts)
  • " Bloodlines " (German Bloodlines )
  • " In the Flesh " (Eng. In the Flesh )

Novels

  • 2003: Idlewild (Eng.: The End, 2007 at Seeliger Verlag AG )
  • 2004: Eden Born
  • 2006: Ever Free
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