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	Geoffrey Landis Biography
		Geoffrey A. Landis emerged in the late 1980s as one of the foremost scientist-writers in the science fiction genre.
		Landis holds a Ph.D. in solid-state physics from Brown University.
		He was a member of the Rover team on the Mars Pathfinder mission, and has been selected to be a member of the science team on the Mars 2003 Exploration Rovers mission.
	www.biographybase.com /biography/Landis_Geoffrey.html (221 words)

	Geoffrey A. Landis
		Geoffrey A. Landis emerged in the late 1980s as one of the foremost scientist-writers in the science fiction genre.
		Landis holds a Ph.D. in solid-state physics from Brown University.
		He was a member of the Rover team on the Mars Pathfinder mission, and has been selected to be a member of the science team on the Mars 2003 Exploration Rovers mission.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ge/Geoffrey_A._Landis.html (202 words)

	Geoffrey A Landis: Impact Parameter, and Other Quantum Realities - an infinity plus review
		In other tales Landis is obviously much dissatisfied with the notion that hard sf must abjure the responsibilities of most other forms of fiction, and one can see him struggling to do something about it.
		So it is very evident that Landis does indeed know how to do it, and can do it superbly; where for some reason he has difficulty is in matching this depth to hard sf -- because none of these three is essentially a hard sf story.
		Landis is currently a very good writer; the impetus for much of the criticism expressed above is that the stories in this book show how exceptionally, how spectacularly good he very nearly is, how very close he comes to transcending the self-imposed limitations of hard sf.
	www.infinityplus.co.uk /nonfiction/impactparameter.htm (1079 words)

	Sci-fi writer helps future
		Landis worked on the Mars Pathfinder mission that sent a crawling rover to the planet's surface, the Mars Global Surveyor, currently in orbit and taking photographs, and the Mars 2001 Odyssey launched earlier in the spring.
		Landis said he had been working on another experiment that was supposed to launch this year, complete with a landing module, but the project was canceled.
		Landis has worked on a variety of other science research projects at NASA that sound interchangeable with the topics of science fiction stories.
	www.sunnews.com /news/2001/0614/SSCIFI.htm (657 words)

	Geoffreys on the Web
		Geoffrey is a Emeritus Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Modern English Language at Lancaster University.
		Geoffrey is an anthropologist at the University of Newcastle in Australia.
		Geoffrey Wiseman is a professor in the School of International Relations at the Univesity of Southern California.
	webgeoffrey.com (5620 words)

	Science Fiction Weekly Interview
		Landis has published over 250 scientific papers in the field of astronautics and elsewhere, and is a member of a mysterious organization known as the Cajun Sushi Hamsters, also known as the
		Landis: The easy answer is that the moon landing and robotic missions to Mars have changed SF by taking away the settings we knew from old science fiction—the elder races of Mars, the swamps of Venus—and replaced them with worlds that are less interesting, or at least less swarming with life.
		Landis: Well, I love science fiction—there's just a thrill from writing science fiction that doesn't come from anything else; it's participating in a community of people that like to think, like to be exposed to outrageous concepts and have their imaginations stretched.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue378/interview.html (1523 words)

	Geoffrey A. Landis, Impact Parameter & Other Quantum Realities
		However, my reading of Geoffrey Landis's fiction had been spread quite thinly over the past decade and a half, and this collection presented a wonderful opportunity to evaluate his work to date.
		Landis is a writer who has never shied away from telling a story from a female perspective.
		Now the hope is that Landis can take his considerable skill and do for the novel what he has already shown he can do for short fiction.
	www.rambles.net /landis_impact01.html (462 words)

	Starflight without Warp Drive
		In this particular forum, Dr. Landis was the interviewer, so for the most part you won't see him popping in with opinions; instead he pretty much tried to keep to the background, asking a new question every time the conversation seems to slow down.
		Science Forum regular Geoffrey A. Landis attended the recent scientific conference "Practical Robotic Starflight: Are We Ready?", sponsored by the Planetary Society, where some of the leading scientists gathered to discuss exactly this topic.
		Dr. Robert Forward is equally prominent in both science fiction, where he is known for combining rigorous scientific backgrounds with free-wheeling speculation, and in the field of astronautics, where as a senior scientist for Hughes Laboratories, he led studies of advanced propulsion for future space missions.
	magicdragon.com /EmeraldCity/Nonfiction/STL.html (3396 words)

	Snapshots at Mars Pathfinder Operational Readiness Test 6 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Geoffrey Landis poses with the Pathfinder model inside simulated Mars.
		Geoffrey Landis and geologist Henry Moore in the Pathfinder science operations area.
		Landis posing with a model of the Pathfinder spacecraft in cruise configuration.
	powerweb.grc.nasa.gov /pathfinder/ort6/ort6.html (297 words)

	NASA Scientist Brings Mars Stories to China
		Landis told his audience that he believed people could realize the dream of traveling to Mars in no more than 20 years, though there are still no plans for a manned Mars mission.
		Landis said that before the lecture he had collected over a dozen English names for the robots from the Chinese audience, including some which were very interesting, such as Universal Post,Son of Mars and Cockroach.
		A graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a master's degree in electronic engineering, Dr. Landis was awarded a doctorate in solid physics in 1989.
	english.peopledaily.com.cn /200209/10/eng20020910_102922.shtml (402 words)

	Finding the Human in Hard SF: Impact Parameter by Geoffrey Landis, reviewed by Lori Ann White
		Landis comes by his hard SF chops honestly; he's a Ph.D. physicist who works for NASA, and one of his experiments was on the Mars rover, Sojourner.
		This is the problem Landis gives his heroine, Trish Mulligan, in "A Walk in the Sun"; her space suit uses a solar-powered life-support system.
		Landis even includes a few that are essentially whimsies ("What We Really Do Here at NASA," which I'd tell you more about, but then I'd have to kill you).
	www.strangehorizons.com /2002/20020527/impact_parameter.shtml (1140 words)

	Amazon.ca: Mars Crossing: Books: Geoffrey A Landis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Unlike many hard SF writers, Landis hasn't forgotten the human element: there's the obligatory sex scene, viewed as a rite of passage abroad ship (and consummated in a weightless environment), and a satisfying, albeit unexpected, denouement that's psychological rather than technological.
		Landis balances characterization and hardware better than usual for this kind of space-exploration yarn, and the losses of sympathetic characters have genuine impact, while depictions of the grim, challenging Martian environment and the recalcitrance of hardware are knowledgeably done, which, given that Landis is a working NASA engineer, isn't surprising.
		Don't let Geoffrey Landis' claims of being a "NASA insider" fool you into thinking that this book is even remotely based on science fact.
	www.amazon.ca /Mars-Crossing-Geoffrey-Landis/dp/0812576489 (2056 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: Impact Parameter and other Quantum Realities
		Geoffrey A. Landis was born in Detroit, Michigan.
		Landis is not a one note writer, however.
		Geoffrey A. Landis knows his physics, but he also knows that the best way to approach the world of science is through the human heart.
	www.sfsite.com /12b/ip118.htm (472 words)

	b l u e j a c k : sff/authors : Geoffrey A. Landis
		Geoffrey A. Landis is just coming out with such a novel (I'll get to it soon, I just hope it's better than William K. Hartmann's.)
		The Long Chase), and I have to say that between that competant story, and Landis' astonishing creds in both the Sci Fi and real science fields, the guy sounds like he leads a busy and interesting life.
		Landis is married to fellow sci-fi writer Mary A. Turzillo.
	www.bluejack.com /b2/sff/au/landis.html (211 words)

	Locus Online: Nick Gevers reviews Geoffrey A. Landis
		This, Landis observes in his story notes, is not really SF at all; it is simply a deadly bleak extrapolation of grim contemporary processes into the future, the present writ nastily larger.
		And Landis does his competent best at humanizing science and scientists, at suggesting that the latter's emotional lives match the quality of their intellectual insights.
		But Landis is far more often on his game, an opener of compelling vistas and delineator of intriguing psychologies; and his moral is well worth heeding.
	www.locusmag.com /2001/Reviews/Gevers11_Landis.html (824 words)

	Mars Crossing: Reviews
		Landis' Mars is rugged and dangerous, but the planet's harshness is redeemed by its austere beauty and a lot of wonderful secrets.
		Landis proves he's a versatile writer with an amazing range of science fiction topics, and those who read his debut novel will undoubtedly be eager for more.
		On the other hand, it is practically traditional to use familiar patterns in many genres and we should hardly hold it against Geoffrey A. Landis that he 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.
	www.sff.net /people/Geoffrey.Landis/marsreview.html (1751 words)

	Review: Impact Parameter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Geoffrey Landis has been recognized as a master storyteller.
		He's won both a Nebula and Hugo for short stories, though the awards were for different stories, and in both cases the stories were contenders for both awards.
		The jacket quotes Gardner Dozois: "While there's hard science content, there's also a rich emotionalism." That's a fancy way of saying that Landis' stories are about the people involved in them, reacting to the scientific background, but never retreating from the foreground of the story.
	www.cs.cmu.edu /afs/cs/usr/roboman/www/sigma/review/impactparam.html (302 words)

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		Geoffrey A. Landis is a scientist at the NASA John Glenn Research Center.
		He was a member of the Mars Pathfinder scientific team, where he analyzed solar energy and dust on Mars, and is now working on advanced concepts for spaceflight.
		Landis is also a Hugo- and Nebula- award winning science fiction writer.
	www.norwescon.org /archives/norwescon26/landis.html (186 words)

	Measuring Dust on Mars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Information on the new design of lightweight nitinol actuator used for the experiment can be found in a paper describing the experiment (ref. 2).
		The MAE solar cell experiment was built by Geoffrey Landis of the Ohio Aerospace Institute and Phillip Jenkins of Essential Research, Inc.
		Landis, G.A.: Dust Obscuration of Mars Solar Arrays.
	www.grc.nasa.gov /WWW/RT1997/5000/5410landis.htm (337 words)

	Geoffrey Landis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Geoffrey A. Landis is a scientist with the Ohio Aerospace Institute on permanent assignment to the Photovoltaics Branch of the N.A.S.A. Lewis Research Center.
		Geoffrey Landis received bachelors degrees in physics and in electrical engineering from MIT, and a PhD in physics from Brown University.
		In addition to his work at NASA, Landis has published over fifty science fiction short stories, including "Ripples in the Dirac Sea" which won the Nebula award for best short story in 1990, and "A Walk in the Sun" which won the Hugo award in 1992.
	www.iki.rssi.ru /jplmirror/mars/bios/landis.html (405 words)

	Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle Interview
		Our overworked scientist/writer Geoffrey A. Landis was in Pasadena for a Pathfinder Project Science Group meeting, so we sent him off to interview Niven and Pournelle in their California habitat.
		Landis: Venus has so much atmosphere, that even if you could turn it all of the carbon dioxide into oxygen, the oxygen pressure would be so high it would be deadly at the surface.
		Landis: It turns out you would have to garden the surface to several kilometers before you've exposed enough rock surface to bind the required atmosphere.
	home.earthlink.net /~geoffrey.landis/NPinterview.html (4329 words)

	Amazon.com: Mars Crossing: Books: Geoffrey A. Landis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		However, in MARS CROSSING, author Geoffrey Landis, a working NASA scientist, has crafted a solid tale around plausible new technology and the planetary knowledge gained from the Pathfinder and Mars Global Surveyor projects, both of which he was a part.
		Geoffrey A. Landis jumps back and forth between the story and the characters back story.
		Geoffrey Landis does a fine job portraying the dusty, desolate Martian landscape in his first novel, "Mars Crossing".
	www.amazon.com /Mars-Crossing-Geoffrey-Landis/dp/0312872011 (2054 words)

	Mars Exploration Rover Mission
		As a solar cell scientist, Geoffrey Landis studies how the dust settles on solar panels to predict how long rovers can operate.
		Working on advanced concepts for future Mars missions, Geoffrey has thought extensively about how to combat the problems of dust.
		Geoffrey has also written a science fiction novel, Mars Crossing, all about a future mission to Mars.
	mars.jpl.nasa.gov /mer/fido/sol19-image1.html (422 words)

	Geoffrey Landis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Geoffrey A. Landis is a scientist with the Ohio Aerospace Institute on permanent assignment to the Photovoltaics Branch of the N.A.S.A. Lewis Research Center.
		He has published over a hundred scientific papers in the fields of photovoltaics, power systems for space, and astronautics (see list), holds four patents on photovoltaic device designs, and organized and served as the technical chairman of the Vision-21 symposium on advanced concepts.
		Geoffrey Landis received bachelors degrees in physics and in electrical engineering from MIT, and a PhD in physics from Brown University.
	mars.jpl.nasa.gov /MPF/bios/landis.html (405 words)

	Fictionwise eBooks: Geoffrey A. Landis
		Bio: Before writing Mars Crossing, his first novel, Geoffrey A. Landis had written and published short stories in all of the major science fiction magazines-- about 60 stories in all-- and had won both the Nebula and the Hugo awards for best science fiction story.
		In addition to being a science fiction writer, Landis is also a scientist, working for the Ohio Aerospace Institute at the NASA John Glenn Research Center.
		Embracing the Alien by Geoffrey A. Landis [Science Fiction]
	www.fictionwise.com /eBooks/GeoffreyALandiseBooks.htm (396 words)

	Geoffrey A. Landis \| Interviews \| SCI FI Weekly
		Geoffrey A. Landis has won the Nebula Award once ("Ripples on the Dirac Sea," 1990), the Hugo twice ("A Walk in the Sun," 1992, and "Falling Onto Mars," 2003) and the respect of SF readers, writers and editors everywhere.
		He is also busy in the field of science, working for NASA as a researcher (the NASA Glenn Research Center has an information page about Landis at powerweb.grc.nasa.gov/pvsee/publications/mars/landis.html.
		Landis has published over 250 scientific papers in the field of astronautics and elsewhere, and is a member of a mysterious organization known as the Cajun Sushi Hamsters, also known as the Cleveland Science Fiction Writers Workshop.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/interviews/sfw11229.html (1513 words)

	Geoffrey - Webled.com
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	www.webled.com /Geoffrey.htm (317 words)

	Landis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Science-fiction writer Geoffrey Landis is the author of over forty published short stories and novelettes, and twenty poems.
		Aside from writing, Dr. Landis is a scientist with the Ohio Aerospace Institute on permanent assignment to the N.A.S.A. Lewis Research Center.
		He has published over a hundred scientific papers in the fields of photovoltaics and astronautics, holds four patents on photovoltaic device designs, and organized and served as the technical chairman of the Vision-21 symposium.
	www.andrew.cmu.edu /user/roboman/Landis.html (206 words)

	To conquer Venus, try a plane with a brain - space - 08 May 2005 - New Scientist
		By cruising between the cloud base and cloud tops, where the temperature is a moderate 100 °C, a solar flyer could help scientists find out what makes that cloud band tick.
		His answer is to land a relatively dumb rover on the surface - which would be heat-proof, acid-proof and pressure-proof.
		The down side would be the delay while the flying computer relays data to or from the dumb rover via a radio link.
	www.newscientist.com /article.ns?id=dn7354 (682 words)

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