-- What's New --

recent changes to the Geoffrey A. Landis web page

Most recent stories published:

"Still on the Road," just out in Asimov's Science Fiction (December 2008)
"The Man in the Mirror" in Analog, Jan-Feb. 2008.
(reprint) "Vectoring," in Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2008 Prime Books, 2008

Recent poetry published:

"Landscapes" in Asimov's, August 2008.
"In '69" in Analog, September 2008.
My poem "Search" just went online on Helix SF
Coming soon: "Small Conquerers" in Asimov's

What's Next:

My poetry collection Iron Angels, comes out from VanZeno soon!

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

Summary of recent news and changes to the page:

November 16: clean ups, new Quotable quote from Elon Musk.
November 6: Moved my main webpage from my old site on 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"), and some of the links will be broken for a few days 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 its own web domain, ironangels.net. Check it out.
October 14: Revised list of appearances; added reading at Saturday Night With The Poet's Haven
October 1: My poem "Search" just went online on Helix
September 30: "Still on the Road," is now 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 available on the web.
Nov. 6: Our new kitten Sam.
Oct. 24: Link to my MIT 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...
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 offline due to security concerns-- will be back up soon.
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.
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.com!
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: 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 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 [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

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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New in reprint:

"Farthest Horizons" in Thrilling Wonder Stories, Summer 2007