Geoffrey A. Landis
http://www.sff.net/people/geoffrey.landis
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
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:
"Science fiction at its best" --Charles Sheffield
My first novel, Mars Crossing , is available from 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.
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.")
Mars Exploration Rovers "Spirit" and "Opportunity" continue to explore Mars!
Appearances
Writing Presentations/Workshops
- June 28, 2:30-4:30: Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy (free public presentation/workshop, with S. Andrew Swann), Cuyahoga County Library, Mayfield Branch, 6080 Wilson Mills Road, Mayfield Village, OH
- July 14, 7-9 pm: Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy (free public presentation/workshop, with S. Andrew Swann), Cuyahoga County Library, Middleburg Heights Branch, 15600 Bagley Road, Middleburg Heights, OH
Conventions
I typically attend three or four science-fiction conventions each year. Look for me at:
- May 16-18 2008, Eaton Conference: "Chronicling Mars", at the University of California Riverside (east of Los Angeles)
- (conference includes a free poetry reading sponsored by the SF Poetry Association on Saturday evening, May 17)
- May 24-25: Marcon, Columbus OH
- July 25: Confluence, Pittsburgh, PA (I'll probably only be able to make the first day, Friday, due to another conflict)
- August 6-10, 2008 Denvention 3 (the 66th World Science Fiction Convention) Denver, Colorado
- October 10-12: Albacon, Albany, NY
2009
Plans are still in progress. We're planning to attend:
Brief biography
bibliography of science fiction
Bibliography of reprints in translation
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 John Glenn Research Center, where I work on Mars missions and an 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.
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
- "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
Science Stuff
- 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
JPEG of me posing with the Pathfinder airbags
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, and there's a great link to an animation and information on the conceptual design.
- 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.
- I worked on MIP, a project to demonstrate 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.
also, take a look at a recent
Panel discussion about the Future of Manned Spaceflight from SciFi Dimensions
Essays
Science Fiction
Cover by Jack Gaughan for "Elemental "
Two short-short stories and a couple of poems about time travel
Other stories and poetry:
More about Me: Views, Reviews, and Interviews
Interviews
Views and Reviews
Links & Stuff
Want to know what I'm up to lately, or just 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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