-- What's New --

recent changes to the Geoffrey A. Landis web page

Most recent works published:

"Private Space," in Technology Review: Science Fiction. Order a copy here

Most recent reprints:

"The Sultan of the Clouds," reprinted in Gardner Dozois, The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection
"The Sultan of the Clouds," in audio form in The Year's Top Short SF Novels (Allan Kaster, ed., Audiotext)

What's Next:

"Demiurge," to appear in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction

Summary of recent news and changes to the page:

January 3: Added links to two more of my poems from 2011:
- "Five Pounds of Sunlight" (Asimov's, January 2011)
- "Night at the Matinee Motel" (Icarus, Spring 2011)
January 1: Posted my yearly listing of stories and poems I published in 2011
Web page has had 259,160 hits

2011

December 17: Posted my poem "The Spirit Rover Longs to Bask in Sunlight" (Asimov's, March 2011) on the page.
November 13: minor updates to appearances.
November 10: Date of Launchpad has now been set; corrected and updated bibliography.
- The audiobook The Year's Top Short SF Novels is now available from Audiotext
October 19: Fixed a flaw in which the link to the blog version of my discussion group was broken.
October 18: I was quoted in a story "Not Such a Stretch to Reach for the Stars" in today's New York Times. (Reprinted several places around the web, including aerospace blog).
October 10: NPR's "This American Life" featured the DARPA "100 Year Starship" symposium, discusses my paper on plasma shielding against interstellar dust, and includes a brief clip from an interview with me.
I am now listed in the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction.
October 8: Technology Review: Science Fiction, is now out, with my story "Private Space." Order a copy here
September 21: Updated appearances, added November 3 talk to the Cleveland Astronomical Society about Venus exploration.
- Added website to order Technology Review: Science Fiction
September 10: "The Sultan of the Clouds," reprinted in Gardner Dozois, The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection
September 4: "The Sultan of the Clouds" podcast from StarShipSofa
August 27: Updated appearances, added Olympus 2012, Chicon-7, and Launchpad.
August 20: "Sultan of the Clouds" did not win the Hugo for best novella. Congrats to the winner, Ted Chiang, and all the rest of the 2011 Hugo nominees. It's an honor just to be nominated.
August 6:The Claron Write-a-thon is over. For six weeks, I logged my daily writing-- goal, one hour every day-- on my site.
August 1:"Private Space," to be appear in Technology Review: Science Fiction
July 12: "Sultan of the Clouds" won the Theodore Sturgeon Award for best short science fiction.
Radio interview with me and Ralph Harvey of CWRU, available on the WCPN website.
July 2: Updated appearances.
June 27: On June 27th, I will participate in the Claron Write-a-thon. For the six weeks of the Clarion workshop, ending August 6, my target will be to write for one hour per day every day, six days per week.
May 23: updates to awards, poetry publications, and upcoming appearances lists.
May 7: updated upcoming appearances.
Apr. 24: My story "The Sultan of the Clouds" is on the ballot for the Hugo award for best novella, voted on by the members of the World SF Convention.
Apr. 19: Added Tremont author's panel to events; new Quotable Quote
Apr. 2: New Quotable Quote
Mar. 7: Added short essay about haiku
Mar. 5: Added link to "The Sultan of the Clouds"
Mar. 3: Added links to my Author Spotlight and my story "The Long Chase" at Lightspeed magazine.
Mar. 2: Updated appearances list; updated poetry page to include poems just reprinted in Astropoetica and clevelandpoetics "52 Cleveland Haiku".
Feb. 23: "The Sultan of the Clouds," is a finalist for the Nebula Award for best novella of 2010, voted on by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA).
Feb. 23: Added new Quotable quote
Feb. 5: Updated appearances list; updated Poetry section.
Jan. 1: Posted annual summary of what I published in 2010.
Web page has had 229,400 hits

2010

Dec 26: I posted three of my 2010 poems on the web page: "Rondel for Apollo 11," from Analog, "Human Potential," from Asimov's, and "The Long Trajectory," from Electric Velocipede issue 22, dated 2010, but actually appeared in 2011)
Dec 7: My novella "The Sultan of the Clouds" was selected to be reprinted in both the Jonathan Strahan Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year volume, and also Richard Horton's The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy anthology. (Contents for the Gardner Dozois anthology haven't yet been announced; stay tuned.) Update: The contents of the Gardner Dozois Year's Best Science Fiction has now been announced, so I can now officially say that I will appear in all three of the Year's Best anthologies!
Nov 25: Added PoetryElyria event Sunday Jan 30 to the appearances list.
Oct 8: New Quotable quote
Sept 30: Deleted or updated some dead links.
Sept 23: My story "The Long Chase" appeared on Lightspeed: on Sept. 14
Sept 1: I appeared on Michio Kaku's Sci-Fi Science on the Science Channel (first episode of the second season), talking about colonizing Venus, and floating balloons filled with air.
July 19: My story "Sultan of the Clouds," just came out in Asimov's SF, September 2010
May 21: A favorable review of Iron Angels in the Spring 2010 Ohioana Quarterly
Apr 18: updated appearances; scifaiku "Earth" published in Microcosm (twitter zine).
Apr 14: Quotable quotes from Dave Barry and Salman Rushdie
Apr. 1: The science special "Hunt for Aliens" premiered on "Naked Science" on the National Geographic Channel-- featuring (among others) interviews with me. See Graphic.
Mar. 10: BBC-4 radio program "Geoengineering the Climate" with sound bites from me was broadcast.
Mar. 6: Link to my prose poem 'Abd Al Muqeet to the poetry page; added Mars Society Convention and Confluence to appearances list; new poetry section on main page.
Feb. 21: Added Penguicon to appearances, new Quotable quote from H. G. Wells.
My Kerouac story "Still On the Road" now out as a podcast from Escape Pod
- Reviewed by Cory Doctorow in BoingBoing
Feb. 15: My poem "Fireflies" (originally published in Asimov's Science Fiction) won the SFPA's 2009 "Dwarf Stars" award for best short poem.
Feb. 3: Removed links to amazon.com from the page. Since they decided to stop selling new books from Macmillan (and Tor) as a "negotiating ploy," to set prices on e-books, I have lost interest in pimping for them.
Jan. 28: My prose poem "Stonehenge" appeared in Aiofe's Kiss (reprinted from Iron Angels)
Jan. 22, Jan. 25: revised main page: added separate pages for science, science fiction, and miscellaneous.
Jan. 18: Added seminar at MIT to coming events; posted flyer for the Burrell Observatory lecture.
Web page has had 203,000 hits

2009

Dec. 30: Posted annual summary of what I published in 2009. This year, the main theme was to put some of my poetry in print.
Dec. 10: Posted my sonnet "Small Conquerors" (from Isaac Asimov's, April-May 2009)
Dec. 10: Updates to appearances listings.
Three poems appeared on Clockwise Cat, a site for surrealism and nonsense poems.
Nov. 7: My story "Marya and the Pirate," just came out in the January 2010 Asimov's SF.
Sept. 26: A handful of poems reprinted on the web:
- on the Cat poetry site: "Lurker is Very Interested" and "Ready to Pounce."
- "After" (from the haiku special issue of Word Salad poetry magazine)
Sept. 20: My story "Vacuum States," in the Mammoth Book of Mindblowing SF
Sept. 14: My story "Still On the Road," will be out in podcast from Escape Pod"
August 31: My story "The Singular Habits of Wasps," reprinted in the anthology The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, from Nightshade Books.
August 22: My poem "Monsters" appeared in the most recent issue of Asimov's SF, Oct/Nov 2009
August 20: Two poems, "The Surface of Venus" and "Fireflies" appeared in the summer 2009 Astropoetica.
August 20: Updated appearances list.
August 2: Updated list of posts to Clevelandpoetics on poetry page.
August 2: "Apollo Memories" posted to the Tor.com Apollo page; link added to "Nukes or Photon Torpedos? What wins?" discussion
July 13: "Search" won the 2009 Rhysling Award for best long poem (available in my collection Iron Angels)
July 4: Updated poetry page with posts on the clevelandpoetics blog
June 20: Added link to J.E. Stanley's review of Iron Angels.
June 19: Story "Marya and the Pirate" accepted by Asimov's SF.
Updated appearances list; added Ingenuity festival, added Cleveland Astronomical Association flyer.
May 16: My poem "Five Pounds of Sunlight" won Hessler Street Fair poetry contest second place.
May 2: link to Anthony Bernstein's review of Iron Angels, from Star*Line.
April 28: My story "The Man in the Mirror" won the Analytical Laboratory award from Analog for best novelette of 2008.
April 22: updated appearances.
April 12: minor updates and corrections to bibliography
March 25: pictures of our cats Sam and Lurker on Facebook
March 17: Several links to the Venus exploration project had decayed; updated (working) links:
- project and video animation
- mission concept animation as a .mov file
- pdf of presentation at VEXAG meeting
- slides from Venus Lecture at MIT.
March 15: "Search" (appearing in Iron Angels) nominated for the Rhysling Award.
March 7: New Quotable quote from Tom Weller.
February 17: "Approaching Perimelasma" e-reprint in the NSF-sponsored anthology Diamonds in the Sky (an anthology with the purpose of teaching real-world astronomy through science fiction).
Upcoming lecture "Colonizing Venus with Floating Cities" at McGill University.
February 3: Updated list of appearances.
January 14: "Earthrise, Viewed From Meridiani, Sol 68," appears on Best Poem
January 11: First copies of my poetry collection Iron Angels now available! Order a copy now! Added link to my author's page at the VanZeno website.
January 1: posted yearly list of stories published in 2008.
Web page has had 178,000 hits

"Still on the Road," image courtesy wordle.net

2008

December 31: added a poem, "In '69" (from Analog, Sept. 2008) to the page.
December 17: updated appearances and "what's next".
December 5: posted poems "Landscapes," from Asimov's, and "Search" from Helix.
November 30: Revised poetry page.
November 27: Finished page for my poetry collection Iron Angels, coming from VanZeno, with table of contents and "buy now" button.
November 27: I'm featured on the Scitastic podcast. Also, a poetry reading podcast: episode 11, 12, 13
November 24: updated appearances.
November 16: clean ups and new Quotable quote.
November 6: Moved my webpage from SFF.net to my personal domain, geoffreylandis.com (which is still hosted on the sff.net server). I also changed my old .htp ("hypertext protocol") type to .html ("hypertext markup language"), so some of the "home" links will be broken until I find time to fix them-- sorry!
November 3: Revised list of appearances.
October 29: Check out photo of me reading at the Haiku deathmatch
October 14: My upcoming poetry collection Iron Angels now has it own domain, ironangels.net.
October 14: Revised list of appearances; added Poet's Haven reading.
October 1: My poem "Search" out in Helix SF
September 30: "Still on the Road" is out in the December Asimov's SF.
September: My thinking about floating cities on Venus were featured on Universe Today. My ideas and calculations about buoyant cities were also used by my friend Tobias Buckell, in his new novel Sly Mongoose (with my permission-- he thanks me in the acknowledgements). Toby talks about this on John Scalzi's blog, and I'm also blogged in futurismic and a few other places.
September 17: My poetry collection Iron Angels will be appearing from VanZeno in a month! (release date is officially 2009, but I hope to have copies available next month)! To celebrate, I added a new section to the website, Poetry.
September 17: February 13-15, 2009: I will be the Hal Clement Science Speaker at Boskone in Boston
September 7: Added Wordle word-collage of Still on the Road.
September 6: revised plans for Context in Columbus, OH.
August 19: Cleveland Plain Dealer article about Solar Probe plus, a mission I work on.
August 3: Snapshots of me with Michael Chabon from the Nebulas 2008 awards (where I gave him the award for best novel).
July 20: Revisions to political views; added random soundbite thoughts about goverment.
July 13: My Venus Airplane featured on "Universe Today".
June 30: Interviewed on WCPN "Around Noon" about "WALL-E." Available as podcast.
June 25: Space Exploration presentation at Berea public library.
April 19: updated appearances, added link to design for a Venus mission I worked on.
March 21: Great Lakes Science Center talk "Mission to Mars."
Feb. 6: "Still on the Road," sold to Asimov's SF (2008)
Jan. 22: pdf of paper Footsteps to Mars from Journal of the British Interplanetary Soc.
Jan. 1: (revised) list of fiction published in 2007
Jan 1, 2008: Web page has had 164,000 hits

2007

December 14: Mary now has a blog. Check out what's going on in the lives of Landis & Turzillo & cats!
November 27: updated appearances.
November 17: updated papers.
November 12: paper on power and cooling systems for a Venus rover in Acta Astronautica, featured in New Scientist, and was picked up by Slashdot (part of a study on exploring Venus).
November 2: My story "The Man in the Mirror" now out in Analog (Jan-Feb. 2008).
October 25: Posted my photos of shuttle launch STS-120
September 30: My ballad "A City Made of Steel" is out in the December issue of Analog.
September 12: I'm featured in the Tor Books Podcast
August 5: My story "Approaching Perimelasma" is podcast on Beam Me Up.
July 3: Mars Crossing was nominated for the Japanese Seiun award for best novel in translation.
July 3: updated Bibliography and foreign publications
June 16: For fringe-physics geeks: commentary on Heim theory.
June 12: "The Man in the Mirror" sold to Analog
May 24: My abstracts for the 7th International Conference on Mars:
- Dust Devils in Gusev Crater: A Second Year of Observations by the Spirit Rover
- Mars Sample Return with ISRU
- Mars Atmosphere Argon Density Measurement with the Alpha Particle X-Ray Spectrometer on MER Missions
- Atmospheric Observations Using MER miniTES
May 3: All the links that started with "http://" had been "corrected" to put a space after the colon. Ouch! Corrected them back.
April 25: updated appearances list.
April 6: "Vectoring" (Probability Zero) appeared in Analog, June 2007
April 3: updated links and appearances, added Japanese cover for Mars Crossing, and link to buy Mars Crossing in Japanese
Mar. 25: Panel discussion the Future of Manned Spaceflight
Mar. 13: updated list of appearances.
Feb. 18: Link to Japanese bibliography
Feb. 5: List of my stories published in 2006
Jan 1, 2007: Web page has had 142,000 hits

2006

Nov. 23: updated appearances list.
Nov. 22: My novella "Derelict", out in SFBC anthology Escape from Earth.
Nov. 2: Interviewed by Giampietro Stocco on The UChronicles
Aug. 28: added Japanese edition of Mars Crossing to foreign publications list.
Aug. 20: put lyrics to Abbas abd el Sami onto my website.
June 27: Updated convention appearances and foreign publications.
Mar 26: "Macroengineering", an introduction I wrote to an upcoming book.
Mar 23: Link "Jefferson's Democracy" added to "politics" page.
Mar 21: My story "Lazy Taekos" appears in Analog, April 2006
Feb 21: DVD of UFO Engineering TV special now available
Feb 15: I appeared on a TV special Alien Engineering. Get the DVD
January 1: Web page has had 117,300 hits

2005

Dec. 26: Stories published in 2005
Dec. 26: two second video of our kitten Sam in MPEG-4 format (or see Sam's page).
Dec. 22: Added Arisia & lectures at MIT.
Nov. 11: Added Venus mission to Scientific papers on the web.
Nov. 6: Our new kitten Sam.
Oct. 24: Link to my MIT web page.
Sept. 27: Page of my photographs.
Sept. 27: Appearance on "Future Space Travel" panel at SF Museum.
August 27: "Betting on Eureka" out in Asimov's SF, Oct/Nov 2005.
August 20: updated foreign publications and appearances.
July 24: I will be guest of honor at Confluence in Pittsburgh next year.
July 7: I have been named the Ronald McNair-NASA Visiting Professor of Astronautics at M.I.T., professorship in memory of Dr. Ron McNair, a MIT physicist who was on Challenger's final flight.
June 7: updated appearances.
April 20: My newsgroup is now available in blog form.
April 2: New Quotable Quote
Mar. 15: In the news: MSN, New Scientist, and the Cleveland Plain Dealer
Mar. 14: 100,000th hit on my web page
Mar. 1: New Quotes
Feb. 28: the Myth of Melanin and Melanoma.
Feb. 6: Updated appearances.
January 13: "Betting on Eureka" sold to Asimov's; Updated appearances.
January 13: Annual listing of stories published in 2004
January 2005: Web page has had 96,000 hits

2004

Dec. 14: updated my "cool people" web page to remove dead links. It's very discouraging--the cool thing about the web is the way pages link to one another... but it's just impossible to keep a massively linked page up to date without constant work. Out of 42 links, 17 were dead or had moved. In an ideal world, I'd like to track down the dead links, and add links to a dozen new cool people, but I'm too busy to keep on top of it... (much later: rather than revise the page again, I just deleted it... too many dead links. Sorry!)
Sept. 11: updates, removed dead links.
Sept. 10: Science special issue on Spirit now on the web.
Sept. 8: New stories "The Resonance of Light" in ReVisions (Daw Books), and "Perfectible" in Asimov's SF Nov. 2004
July 10: Updated appearances.
July: Interview on SciFi Weekly
July 5: "The Eyes of America" nominated for the "Sidewise" award for best alternate history.
Mar 30: minor page clean up, deleted dead links and updated information.
February 21: Featured in Crain's Technology
February 11: Featured in the Cleveland Plain Dealer
February 10: Featured in Exploratorium webcast.
January 4: Spirit has landed on Mars!
January 1: Annual list of my stories published in 2003
January 2004: Over 75,800 hits on the page.

2003

Dec. 30: "Ouroboros" is reprinted in the anthology Microcosms (Daw, Jan. 2004)
October 13: The radio show SciFi OverDrive interviewed me.
September 2: Falling Onto Mars won the Hugo award for best short story of 2002! Thanks, everybody! It's an honor just to be nominated, but it's a real thrill to win!
July 18: The book Interstellar Travel and Multi-Generation Space ships, edited by Yoji Kondo and others, is out with my article "The Ultimate Exploration: A Review of Propulsion Concepts for Interstellar flight," plus articles by Joe Haldeman, Freeman Dyson, Robert Forward, and Charles Sheffield.
May 6: My story "The Eyes of America" is now on SciFiction.com
April 24: Falling Onto Mars is a Hugo nominee for best short story of 2002! Thanks, everybody!
April 5: Wrote a retrospective on the SpaceCub homebuilt rocket
March 15: updated appearances, politics, and stories coming out soon
January 26: posted annual summary of stories published in 2002
Jan. 25: minor updates
January 2003: Over 55,000 hits on the page.

2002

20 Dec.: deleted outdated links.
10 Dec.: Internet chat with Asimov's SF.
19 Nov.: Reading and interview on Hour of the Wolf .
23 Oct.: Pictures of Mary and me with a Giant Panda!
27 Sept.: Links to news about my trip to China, where I have the nickname Uncle Martian
26 Aug.: As part of the Mars Exploration Rovers mission, participated in the August FIDO rover field test. See me on sol 19
1 Aug.: Added Chinese transliteration of my name.
31 July: Story in July 28 Cleveland Plain Dealer.
31 July: Link to pdf Crossing Mars: Past and Future Missions to a Cold, Dry Desert, 2nd Space Mechanisms Workshop
3 June: Selected for the science team on the 2003 Mars Rovers mission. See Press release from NASA HQ
2 May: interview on MIT alumni site
29 April: Mars Crossing did not win the Nebula -- Congrats to the winner, Catherine Asaro!
21 March: Impact Parameter came out from SF Book Club
28 February: Mars Crossing is a finalist for the Nebula Award.
21 February: My Interstellar Flight talk at the February AAAS meeting made headlines.
8 January: The Edge of Sunshine on "Science@NASA".
4 January: Annual summary of science fiction published in 2001
4 January: updated recent publications and reviews.
1 January: Hit counter registers over 41,000 visits.

2001

12 December: Review of Impact Parameter in SciFi Dimensions and in Midwest Book Review
25 November: Impact Parameter is one of 5 SF works on the Publisher's Weekly "Year in Books", which "designates books of highest quality and showcases titles that the editor(s) wish to bring special attention to."
20 November: "Approaching Perimelasma (from Impact Parameter) is on the Infinity-plus site (a teaser to get you to buy the book.)
20 November: Interview on the Infinity-Plus website
12 November: Mars Crossing now in paperback.
11 November: Review by Gavin Grant in BookPage .
1 November: Recent paper proposing a Mars "hopper" featured in New Scientist
1 November: Review of Impact Parameter by Nick Gevers in Locus online
31 October: Review of Impact Parameter by D. Douglas Fratz on Scifi Weekly
24 October: site with reviews of Impact Parameter .
Quote from Publisher's Weekly: "He gives "hard" science fiction a heart."
23 October: NASA Glenn site changed; old NASA Glenn links are now dead, sorry.
13 October: Audio interview on Hour 25
7 August: papers on laser power beaming on the NASA site:
- Laser Beamed Power: Satellite Demonstration Applications (1992).
- Space Transfer With Ground-Based Laser/Electric Propulsion, (1992).
- Moonbase Night Power by Laser Illumination (1992).
- Satellite Eclipse Power by Laser Illumination (1990).
19 July: Posted 2000 SF Age Science Forum Predictions for the Next Millennium
15 July: Mars Crossing won the Locus Award for best first novel of 2000!
19 June: Updated signings
14 May: New quote
7 May: Info and links about rocket propellant on Mars.
2 April: audio interview on scifidimension.com
8 March: profile of me by author Aimee Kratts, based on Interzone interview (issue 120).
6 March: List of SF published in 2000; new Bibliography; updated writing links
21 February: Article in the Toledo Blade
20 February: In Cleveland Plain Dealer February 14
In Albuquerque Journal February 18
16 February: Mars Crossing chosen for SF Book club
27 January: Web page reached 30,000 hits. Routine updates; added signings and appearances.

2000

16 December: reviews, from Kirkus, scifi.com, and other places.
3 December: Mars Crossing released!
13 Nov: Reviews of Mars Crossing
5 Nov: cover scan of Mars Crossing
3 Nov: Impact Parameter , to appear from Golden Gryphon in the fall. Cover art by Bob Eggleton.
17 Oct: Five of my stories are now available in e-book form from Fictionwise.com
12 Sept: Put my Pathfinder journal back on the web.
6 August: French Translation of "Time Prime" by Marc Vallée.
26 August: quotes about Mars Crossing from science fiction authors.
29 July: New page with book recommendations. Still a page in progress.
25 July: Registered www.geoffreylandis.com internet domain.
3 July: Mars Crossing is now on Amazon.
27 June: paper by Tam Czarnik on Vacuum exposure page
19-20 June: New quote
17 June: Magazines and books with my stories for sale
29 May: Science Fiction Age interview with Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. for SF Age science forum.
25 May: Revised where to buy books with my stories ; deleted dead links.
8 May: Mars Crossing reviewed by former JPL head of Mars Exploration Donna Shirley
8 May: New web page: "what's the effect of vacuum exposure on a human?"
24 April: Scanned cover of Mars Crossing.
18 March: Greek bibliography courtesy of Alternative Factor ( English translation ).
11 February: "Embracing the Alien" now on the web in Italian, courtesy of IntercoM 6.
24 January: A page for Mary Turzillo
13 January: New page for Cajun Sushi Hamsters writer's workshop.
12 January: Excerpts from my Interview in the January Locus
5 January: minor page updates.

1999

1 December: New self-portrait (big) (small)
13 November: Web page reached 20,000 hits. Break out the (virtual) champagne.
9 November: chapter "Power Systems," in textbook Human Space Systems
3 November: New list of 1999 stories
3 November: Available on Asimov's Web site: " Christmas (after we all get time machines) "
21 October: Review of "Jamais Vu" on Paula's Picks
6 October: "Polar Landing Site for a First Mars Expedition ". A longer version appeared in Analog , June
9 August: Updated translated stories.
10 May: Deleted jpegs to keep from exceeding storage limit.
29 April: I am now married! See: Mary Turzillo web page . Snapshots from the wedding:
- me posing with William Shunn, Bob Howe, and Mary
- me posing with my sister and Mary
15 April: Air Pollution on the Moon (from Analog , 1989).
8 March: "Ecopoiesis" and "Winter Fire" Nebula Award finalists .
8 March: News about my Institute for Advanced Concepts project
11 February: MIP experiment to make rocket fuel on Mars.
10 February: Short essay "Out of Sight, Out of Mind "
10 February: Internet chat Man and Mars with Kim Stanley Robinson and Gardner Dozois (unedited transcript).
11 January: New page of "cool people" links
8 January: 1989 paper on Laser-pushed Lightsails

1998

23 December: List of 1998 stories .
21 December: Paper discussing the Fermi Paradox.
11 December: Review of my story "Elemental".
24 November: updated "to appear", added new quotes.
13 November: Where to buy books containing some of my stories.
22 October: Link to papers available on the net
19 October, 9 October: updates; revised dead links.
6 September: List of reprints in translation
12 August: New papers:
- Dust Accumulation and Removal Experiment on the Mars-2001 Surveyor Lander
- MATE Experiment on the Mars-2001 Surveyor Lander
10 August: Updated links to NASA Glenn Photovoltaics Branch.
20 July: Comments on faster than light article in Discover magazine.
17 June: Abstract about Laser-powered Interstellar Probe.
8 June: Science Forum on Mars Exploration.
4 June: "Adventures in the Mars Business" published in Analog.
6 April: New link to Surveyor-2001 Lander
9 March: "The Summer I Spent on Mars" published in Final Frontier.
20 February: Link to paper Integrated Thin-film Solar Power Satellite
3 February: Two Science Fiction Age "Science Forum" columns:
- Faster than Light interstellar flight.
- Slower than the Light interstellar flight.

1997

1 December: Put a new page "Return to the Red Planet" on the NASA server
31 October: New quotes .
27 October: Put biography on a separate page.
24 October: Where do we go? Without FTL, are dreams of exploration hopeless?
8 September: two new papers on the web: MAE Technology, Mars-2001
1 September: Essay about Pathfinder and naming rocks on Mars [note: this was later expanded and published in Analog ]. My" rock made national news: Yogi
14 July: Photo of me with the Sojourner rover model.
13 July: some e-mail clips I sent during Pathfinder operations.
20 June: Snapshots of the Mars Pathfinder operations test
16 June: Transcript of Head Space interview
8 June: Interview published in Interzone
27 May: People Chase award.
25 May: [now outdated] Ohio Aerospace Institute bio and resume.
6 May: Link to Resa Nelson
5 May: Links to information about writing
9 April: Link to Mars Propellant Production
8 April: "A Walk in the Sun" out on tape; link to NASA technical reports.
28 March: Announcement of new mission I'm working on, Surveyor-2001 .
28 March: TomorrowSF bio [link expired, sorry].
6 March: "Hot Death on Wheels " from Realms of Fantasy; new links & quotes .
4 March: link to my page "Solar Power for the Moon".
27 February: put "cool links " into separate file; new links.
18 February: link to Astrid Julian
12 February: "Paradigms of Change" out in Tomorrow SF
3 February: minor changes; added a MacPaint image
30 January: link to Pathfinder launch photos.
21 January: Sketches and a watercolor.
17 January: links to reviews that mention my name

1996

15 December: links to Cajun Sushi Hamsters and Cleveland Free Times article.
5 December: new interview
25 November: Link to ACLU et al. vs Janet Reno.
15 November: Link to SpaceCub [link now expired, sorry], and minor changes
12 November: New quotes
7 November: Paper on lunar manufacturing on the web
4 November: Pathfinder and Me photo.
3 November: GIF of Author's Choice Monthly cover.

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