-- What's New --
Most recent stories published:
- "The Man in the Mirror" in Analog, Jan-Feb. 2008.
- "Vectoring" (Probability Zero) in Analog, June 2007
- "David in the Lion's Den," in Future Weapons of War (Baen Books, 2007)
What's Next:
- "Still on the Road," to be published, Asimov's Science Fiction (2008)
- (reprint) "Vectoring," in Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2008 (Prime Books, TBP 2008)
New in reprint:
- "Lazy Taekos" in Best American Fantasy (Prime Books, Aug. 2007)
- "Farthest Horizons" in Thrilling Wonder Stories, Summer 2007
Summary of recent news and changes to the page:
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 appeared in the journal Acta Astronautica, featured in New Scientist, and was picked up by Slashdot. (This was part of a study on exploring the surface and atmosphere of Venus).
- November 2: My story "The Man in the Mirror" now out in the latest Analog (Jan-Feb. 2008).
- October 25: Posted my photos of the 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 the radio show Beam Me Up.
- July 3: Mars Crossing was nominated for the Japanese Seiun award for best novel in translation.
- July 3: updated Bibliography and list of foreign publications
- June 16: For fringe-physics geeks; I posted 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:
- 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: Link updates, revised appearances, added jpg of 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
2005
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...
- 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
2001
2000
1999
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:
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 [no longer
available]
- 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
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