著名科幻作家杰弗里-兰迪斯（Geoffrey A. Landis）的个人网页内容

Geoffrey A. Landis

scientist and science-fiction writer

http://www.sff.net/people/geoffrey.landis

"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

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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:

• order directly from Golden Gryphon Press
• order it on-line from your local independent booksellerthrough BookSense
• order online from Amazon.com or Barnes&Noble.com
• I have some copies of the (now out of print) SF Book Club edition for sale. If you would like a copy, send me e-mail.

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"Science fiction at its best" --Charles Sheffield
My first novel, Mars Crossing , is available from Tor Books.
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*   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 Crossinghe'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:

• Donna Shirley: "Old-fashioned science fiction, in the good sense."
• Explorations: "I stood up and applauded."
• Charles Sheffield: "Science fiction at its best and as it ought to be."
• Michael Bishop: "Sign on for an unforgettable journey."
• Maureen McHugh: "a myriad of wondrous details."

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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.")

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Mars Exploration Rovers "Spirit" and "Opportunity" continue to explore Mars!

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Appearances

Lectures

• Mar 20, 2007, 4-5 pm: Lecture at Boston University Astrophysics Seminar, Boston, MA.
• April 27, 2007: talk to the Astronomy Club of Akron , 8pm.
• July 21, 2007: lecture about moon exploration at the NASA Glenn Visitor's Center, Cleveland, OH

Conventions

I attend one or two science-fiction conventions each year. Look for me at:

• July 2007 (date to be announced): I often go to ConFluence, a small but friendly literary SF convention in Pittsburgh, PA. No details on when this will be this year.
• 30 Aug.-3 Sept. 2007: Nippon 2007 (the World Science Fiction convention), Yokohama, Japan

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Brief biography
bibliography of science fiction
Bibliography of reprints in translation
Geoffrey Landis bibliography compiled by the ISFDB

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Me

me posing with the "Spirit" rover
photo by Barbara Sprungman

Writing is not my full time job. Right now I am the Ronald E. McNair-NASA Visiting Professor of Astronautics at M.I.T.

• See my home page at MIT

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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

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Science Stuff

• You can find links to projects I've worked on here and there on the net.
  • papers available on the web
• 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.
  • Zip Code Mars
  • Martian soil article
  • I also participated in a 2003 field test of the "FIDO" rover. See me on sol 19 of operations.
• Mars Pathfinder is one of the projects I worked on.
  • You can read an account of why Mars is such a fascinating planet, and what I did on the Pathfinder mission, on the page "Return to the Red Planet " on the NASA server
  • find a pdf file of a talk I gave about my experiences with Pathfinder at the Workshop on Space Mechanisms. Or read some short e-mail clips I sent during Pathfinder operations.
    
  • You can see a picture of the little experiment that I designed, a discussion of Solar Energy on Mars, or more discussions on the NASA Glenn Pathfinder page, or see results of my experiment.
  
  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 worked on MIP, a project to demonstrate making oxygen for rocket fuel on the surface of Mars.
• I also work on the design of airplanes to fly in the atmosphere of Mars and Venus (see pdf files here ).
• I was principle investigator on a solar cell testbed project.
• 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.

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In the News

• Talking about dust devils on MSN and in New Scientist
• Talking about MER in the Cleveland Plain Dealer
• Featured in Crain's Technology
• Featured in the Cleveland Plain Dealer
• I was widely quoted in newspapers ranging from the New York Times to Der Spiegel on the subject of interstellar flight in the news, as a result of the presentations that I made at the symposium on Interstellar Flight and Generation Starships at the February AAAS meeting. Articles.
  
• News about my trip to China
• Articles about me in the NASA Glenn Aerospace Frontiers magazine

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Photo Gallery

A gallery of pictures, mostly snapshots of me and various stuff I've been around.

• 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
• Page for our kitten Sam
• 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)
  • My view of the launch
• Me and my niece Kerry
• Trip to Joshua Tree National Monument
• Monarch, and other human-powered Airplanes
• Signing books in Kansas City (2002)
• Picture of me by Beth Gwinn, from Locus
• High resolution NASA photo little (black and white) - little (color) - big (black and white)
• Self portrait in pencil
• Art
• Photographs I've taken.

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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.

• Interview with Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
• Faster than Light interstellar travel (with Robert L. Forward, John G. Cramer, Gregory Benford, and Geoffrey A. Landis)
• Slower than the Light interstellar flight (with David Brin, Robert L. Forward, and Jonathan Vos Post)
• 1993 Mars Exploration forum (with Robert Zubrin, Doug Beason, and Geoffrey Landis)
• 2000 Science Forum Predictions for the Next Millennium, with too many contributors to name.

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Essays

• "Macroengineering" (introduction to an upcoming book).
• Apollo Remembrance
• Remembering SpaceCub
• 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)
• Science, Fiction, Poetry (introduction to the MindSparks Poetry anthology)
• 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

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Science Fiction

Cover by Jack Gaughan for "Elemental "

Two short-short stories and a couple of poems about time travel

• Interlude at the Circus (short story, 1992)
• Time Prime (short story, 1995)
• "A Month of Sundays" (poem, 1991)
• "In the Future, They Will Get Us Confused" (poem, 1991)

Other stories:

• "Approaching Perimelasma (from Impact Parameter )
• I have some stories available in electronic form from: Fictionwise.com
• My complete Bibliography of science fiction

  You can buy anthologies containing my stories from Amazon.com or from your local bookstore, or directly from me, or from your local independent bookseller

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More about Me: Views, Reviews, and Interviews

Interviews

• I was interviewed recently on television for the show Alien Engineering. Catch it when it's rebroadcast on the History Channel!

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• Interview with me by Giampietro Stocco on The UChronicles
• Interview with me on SciFi Weekly
• interview with me published in the Sun News
• very short interview on the MIT alumni web site
• listen to an "internet radio" interview on Hour 25
• Interview with me on the Infinity-Plus website
• Read excerpts from my Locus Interview
• If you are interested in more of my opinions and thoughts about writing, read the
  • interview by Mary Turzillo, originally published in Ohio Writer, or
  • the profile of me by author Aimee Kratts, based on the interview published in Interzone (issue 120).
• 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 Soukupand Angus McDonald, or
  • the Cybling on-line chat, with Dozois and Dan Imal, or
  • an unedited transcript of a 1999 discussion Man and Mars with Kim Stanley Robinson and Gardner Dozois.
  • or listen to a 2001 audio interview at scifidimension.com

Views and Reviews

• Some reviews
• My political views
• Web page for my wife, Mary A. Turzillo

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Links & Stuff

• Geoff's Quotable Quotes
• Cool Links
• Writing Links
• Cool people
• Cool books
• Find your local independent bookseller through BookSense
• Geoffrey Landis page at NASA Glenn
• Were you looking for Geoffrey B. Landis, the Southwest Artist ? (no relation, that I know)

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If you prefer a blog, my news and chat is now available in blog form as well

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