Geoffrey A. Landis:
Miscellaneous

me petting a panda in Chengdu

Locus photo by Beth Gwynn

Photo Gallery

• My photos of the shuttle launch STS-120
• Me with Michael Chabon
• Photo of me accepting the Hugo for "Falling onto Mars." (Please notice the yak-bone Tibetan demon clasp on my scarf!). (photo by John Teehan ) Mary and Geoff at the Hugos by Scott Edelman
• A page of photos of me on Facebook
• Page for our kitten Sam
  • More pictures of Sam, and Lurker
• Self-portrait with Polaroid camera
• me in a hat (photo by Jane A. Turzillo)
• Me with a Giant Panda
• What I did on my summer vacation: Mars Pathfinder Snapshots
  • Me at the Pathfinder science results Press Conference
  • Me posing with the Pathfinder spacecraft
  • Operations Readiness Test snapshots
  • Me & Marvin out at JPL
  • Me posing with the Pathfinder airbags
  • Me posing with the Sojourner rover model (full size) (small)
• Me and my niece Kerry
• Trip to Joshua Tree National Monument
• Chrysalis, Monarch, and other human-powered Airplanes
• Signing books in Kansas City (2002)
• Picture of me by Beth Gwinn, from Locus
• Giving a talk at NASA
• Self portrait in pencil
• Art
• Photographs I've taken.

Me flying the Chrysalis Human Powered Aircraft at MIT.

NASA Photo

Essays

• "Macroengineering" (introduction to book).
• Apollo
  • Apollo Remembrance
  • Apollo Memories (on the Tor.com Apollo memories blog page)
  • In '69 (poem)
• Remembering SpaceCub
• Beyond 2001: the future of Spaceflight
• Where do we go?: if we can't travel faster than light, are our dreams of exploration hopeless?
• Everything I Really Needed to Know I Learned from Playing Tetris
• Spinning Wheels, Democracy and the USS Enterprise (from Asimov's SF)
• Things that aren't actually true: the Myth of Melanin and Melanoma
• Infinite Space (from Absolute Magnitude Fall 1996)
• The Fermi Paradox
• Effect of Vacuum on an Unprotected Human

More about Me: News, Views, Reviews, and Interviews

Television Appearances

• I appear in the science special "Hunt for Aliens," which premiered in April on the "Naked Science" series on the National Geographic Channel. See the graphic.
• The Science Channel's special "Exodus Earth" features me on the episode "Venus"
• I appear on the television special Alien Engineering. Catch it on the History Channel!
• I also appear on the History Channel in the show Beyond the Big Bang.
• Upcoming appearances
  • Countdown: Aliens, Discovery Channel, first quarter 2011.
  • Sci-Fi Science with Michio Kaku: "Floating Cities," Science Channel, premier date TBD

Interviews

• Interview with me by Giampietro Stocco on The UChronicles (archived)
• 2004 interview with me on SciFi Weekly (archived)
• Short 2002 interview on the MIT alumni web site (archived)
• Interview with me on the Infinity-Plus website
• Read excerpts from my 2000 Locus Interview
• If you are interested in older interviews, featuring more of my opinions and thoughts about writing, read some interviews from the 1990s:
  • interview by Mary Turzillo, originally published in Ohio Writer (1992)
  • the profile of me by author Aimee Kratts, published in Interzone issue 120, based on her 1995 interview.
  • For a more free-form interview, read the transcript of the Headspace on-line chat where I was the invited guest author, hosted by Martha Soukup and Angus McDonald.

Views, Reviews, Links & Stuff

• Brief biography
• My political views
• Links to old news articles mentioning me
• Old reviews
• Web page for my wife, Mary A. Turzillo
• Geoff's Quotable Quotes

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