Enlightening, argumentative, and passionate reflections from a lifetime of debate about science, sex, and society. A fine personal summing up by mother and sonotwo of the finest creative thinkers and writers in the literature.<b>--Greg Bear</b><br />This is a ripsnorting intellectual barnstorm of a book, a sort of chimeric hybrid of mental genes from Dorion Sagan, his genius mother Lynn Margulis, and his dead father Carl Sagan--surely one of the smartest families on the planet. The result is a remarkably coherent and blazingly original proposal for the next grand narrative of our civilization (now that we have pretty much burned out the Cartesian one). <b>--Frederick Turner, author of <i>Natural Classicism and The Culture of Hope</i></b><br />Brilliant and fascinating, Dazzle Gradually unrolls for us the scroll of life on earth. These essays show us the intricate complexities of microbes; an atmosphere that performs self-maintenance; our own minds. Margulis and Sagan do not blink at the big questions or hard answers, and their writing is lively, precise, entertaining, and provocative, their passion for science everywhere evident and persuasive. Anyone who has ever wondered where we came from, who we are, and where we may be headed will delight in this extraordinarily exciting book. <b>--Kelly Cherry, author of <i>Hazard and Prospect: New and Selected Poems</i></b><br />In Dazzle Gradually we have one of the great iconoclastic biologists of our time and her son, both excellent writers, firing ideas at us, reflecting, asking questions, making connections. eTruthis superb surprisei is their gift to us n Roald Hoffman