Geoffrey A. Landis
http://www.geoffreylandis.com
scientist and science-fiction writer
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"Landis's finest success transcends mental acuity and dazzling storytelling: he gives "hard" science fiction a heart."
--Publisher's Weekly
"One of the best hard science-fiction writers ever. He really knows his stuff."
--Gregory Benford
Appearances
Conventions
I typically attend two or three science-fiction conventions each year. You can find me at:
- (tentative, check back for confirmation): Feb. 12-14, 2010: Boskone, Boston, MA.
- (tentative, plans still in progress): October 28-31, 2010: World Fantasy Convention, Columbus, OH.
- Future plans are still in flux, but some conventions I sometimes show up at include Boskone (Boston, February), Arisia (Cambridge MA, January), Marcon (Columbus OH), Confluence (Pittsburgh PA), Context (Columbus, OH), and of course the science fiction World Convention (although I doubt I'll make it to Australia in 2010-- sorry, Aussies).
Public Talks
- October 22, 2009, afternoon: talk "Exploring Mars," Cuyahoga County Community College, United Technologies Center room 140, Cleveland, OH.
- January 21, 2010: talk "Exploring Mars" at the University of Toledo, Department of Physics and Astronomy.
- January 22, 2010, 7:30pm: talk "Exploring Mars" at
Baldwin Wallace College (Surrarrer Auditorium, Room 18, in the Life & Earth Science Building, 320 Front St.,) Berea, OH. This is a free lecture and no reservations are required. Sponsored by the Burrell Observatory. Talk is open to the public, and followed by a public night at the Burrell Observatory for telescopic observation of Mars (weather permitting).
Brief biography
bibliography of science
fiction
Bibliography of
reprints in translation
Bibliography in Japanese: http://homepage1.nifty.com/ta/sfl/landis.htm
Geoffrey Landis
bibliography compiled by the
ISFDB
Me
me posing with the "Spirit" rover
photo by Barbara Sprungman
Writing is not my full time job. In my main job, I am a scientist at the
NASA John Glenn Research Center,where I work on Mars missions and on developing advanced concepts and technology for future space missions.
- See my home page at MIT, where I was the Ronald E. McNair-NASA Visiting Professor of Astronautics in 2005 and 2006.
Poetry
Recent news: My poem "Search" (appearing in Iron Angels) just won the Rhysling Award for best long SF poem of 2008.
In addition to science and science fiction, I also sometimes
write poetry. My first collection of poems,
Iron Angels, just appeared from Van Zeno Press in 2009.
Buy it now!
"Science
fiction at its best" --Charles Sheffield
Impact
Parameter (and other quantum realities)
Award-winning short stories by Geoffrey A. Landis
$24.95 hardcover
Read the Reviews
order the Golden Gryphon press collector's edition of Impact
Parameter:
My first novel, Mars
Crossing , was published by
Tor Books.
--Reviews --
* Winner of the Locus Award for best first
novel *
"... Geoffrey A. Landis has married the Zubrin-style bootstrap Mars
expedition with the desperate, against-all-odds trek across a hostile
wilderness toward a sole hope of survival. In Mars
Crossing he's done an excellent job in a classic vein,
and the result is a ripping good yarn."
--Tom Easton, Analog
What people have to say about Mars Crossing:
Podcast & e-book
My story "Approaching Perimelasma" is available podcast
from Beam Me Up, a radio show from Rockland, Maine.
Several interviews with me are available on podcasts:
Looking for science fiction in e-book format? Four
of my stories are available in electronic form from Fictionwise
("excellence in eBooks for Palm, Pocket PC, eBookMan, WinCE, and PCs.")
Science Stuff
Mars Exploration Rovers "Spirit" and
"Opportunity" continue
to explore Mars!
- You can find links to projects I've worked on here and
there on the net.
- I am a
member of the science team of the Mars
Exploration Rovers mission, two highly-capable rovers named
"Spirit" and "Opportunity" that are currently roving across the surface
of Mars.
- Mars
Pathfinder is one of the projects I worked on.
me posing with the Pathfinder "Sojourner" rover
Here's my experiment (visible at the lower right corner of the
Sojourner's solar panel) on Mars!
- I also led a Revolutionary
Aerospace systems Concepts project to make a technology-based
conceptual design for a mission to explore the surface and atmosphere
of Venus. A summary of the mission design was published in the journal Acta
Astronautica. The project (with video animation) is shown here; here is a link to an animation of the mission concept as a .mov file, and you can see my presentation (with pictures) at the VEXAG (Venus EXploration Advisory Group) on the web. You can also look at the slides from Lecture I gave about Venus exploration at MIT in 2008.
- One part of the project, a paper that I wrote with Ken
Mellott about the design of a power and cooling system for a Venus
rover, also appeared
in Acta Astronautica
- A story about the paper was recently featured in New
Scientist and was picked up by Slashdot.
- Cleveland Plain Dealer published an article about Solar
Probe plus, a mission I work on.
- I worked on MIP,
a project to demonstrate making
oxygen for rocket fuel on the surface of Mars.
- I also work on the design
of airplanes to fly in the atmosphere of Mars and Venus.
- An especially fun project was working with a bunch of
physicists and physicist/SF-writers at a NASA workshop on Faster than
Light Travel. One result of this was that we determined that cosmic
wormholes could have net negative mass. This paper was so interesting
that the University of California put out a press
release about it! I was featured in Discover
magazine article about faster than light travel; the article is
available from Findarticles.com,
and you can also read my comments
about the article.
- Another project I spent a lot of time working on is
developing was laser power beaming to power spacecraft. You can read a
brief overview.
- If you really want more details, you are welcome to see my
complete scientific
bibliography (or, older version: here).
In the News
Photo Gallery
A gallery of pictures, mostly snapshots of me and various stuff I've
been around.
Science Forum
Between 1992 and 2000, I was a participant in the "Science
Forum" of the magazine Science Fiction Age.
Here are five of the Science Forum columns that I conducted or
participated in.
Essays
Science Fiction
Cover by Jack Gaughan for "Elemental
"
Two short-short stories about time travel, and other stories
on the Web
Word collage for "Still on the Road," just out in Asimov's Science Fiction (December 2008)
(image courtesy wordle.net
)
FAQs
Answers to some of the questions that people often ask me.
- "What have you written recently?"
See What's New.
- "Are your stories available in a collection?"
Yes, a short story collection, "Impact
Parameter (and other quantum realities)" is available from Golden Gryphon Press.
And many of my stories can
be found in anthologies available from your local bookseller, or from Amazon
- How about your poetry?
You're in luck! A collection of my poetry, Iron Angels
just came out from VanZeno press! Check it out
- "In Mars Crossing, you quote
lyrics from a song, "Abbas abd'el Sami." Is this song available
anywhere?
The lyrics are here: Abbas abd'el
Sami. If you want the music, you'll have to write it
yourself.
- "In Mars Crossing, you show
an expedition making rocket fuel on Mars. Is this real technology, or
only science fiction?"
It's real technology. Look at information
and links about making rocket propellant on Mars.
- "Do you have another novel coming out?"
Recently I've written some short stories (see the "what's next" section
in What's New. )
- "Are you working on another novel?"
I have a contract to write two novels, which will come out from Tor Books. No release
date for these, though.
- "Is one of these a sequel to Mars Crossing?"
The second one will have a section that takes place on Mars, although
it's not a sequel. I'm eagerly waiting (and working on!) results of the
upcoming
missions to Mars
More about Me: Views, Reviews, and Interviews
Interviews
Views and Reviews
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Links & Stuff
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say hi?
Visit my
newsgroup on SFF.net and leave a message-- or drop by and
just hang out.
If you prefer a blog, my news and chat is now available in blog form.
My wife Mary
Turzillo also has a blog;
read her side of the story on Livejournal.
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