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	Robert Forward - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Robert Lull Forward commonly known as Robert L. Forward (August 15, 1932- September 21, 2002) was a United States physicist and science fiction writer.
		Forward's son, also named Robert, has led a successful career as a storyboard artist and writer in television animation, including in He-Man and the Masters of the Universe and more famously, Beast Wars.
		Forward's oldest daughter, Mary Lois Mattlin, is a teacher and homemaker.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_L._Forward (340 words)

	Forward - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Forward, the publication of the Socialist League (often called the "Forward Group") in Canada during the 1970s and 1980s.
		Robert Forward, a United States physicist and science fiction writer.
		Small forward or power forward position in basketball.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Forward (231 words)

	Telegraph News Robert Forward
		Robert Forward, who died last Saturday aged 70, was a science fiction writer who turned to the genre after a career as a scientist specialising in "exotic physics", space propulsion and gravitation.
		Robert Lull Forward was born at Geneva, New York, on August 15 1932, and educated at the University of Maryland, from which he graduated in Physics in 1954.
		Forward, an unmissable sight at science fiction conventions in his bespoke suit, white shirt and bow tie, and the coloured waistcoats run up by his wife (he had a couple of dozen), maintained a holiday home in Reay, between Wick and Thurso in the far north of Scotland, for the last 15 years.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/09/28/db2803.xml&sSheet=/arts/2002/09/29/bomain.html (559 words)

	Robert L. Forward (1932-2002)
		Forward was one of the early pioneers in the field of experimental gravitational radiation astronomy.
		Forward also published the first paper showing that it was possible to build and operate a laser interferometer gravitational radiation antenna that was photon noise limited over the band from 1-20 kHz, and that further improvements in gravitational strain sensitivity needed only more laser power and longer lengths in the interferometer arms.
		Forward was a true pioneer, a scientist and engineer who conceived many nuts-and-bolts real-world concepts for such science-fiction entities as antimatter engines, wormholes, and time travel.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/755733/posts (1150 words)

	Minicon 30 Science Guest of Honr: Robert Forward
		Robert L. Forward is a science consultant, writer, and futurist specializing in studies of exotic physical phenomena and future space exploration with an emphasis on advanced space propulsion concepts.
		Forward is a Fellow of the British Interplanetary Society, Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and a member of the American Physical Society, Sigma Xi, Sigma Pi Sigma, National Space Society, The Science-Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, and the Author's Guild.
		Forward obtained his B.S. in Physics from University of Maryland in 1954, M.S. in Applied Physics from UCLA in 1958, and Ph.D. in Gravitational Physics from University of Maryland in 1965.
	www.mnstf.org /minicon30/robert-forward.html (1106 words)

	Forward, Robert L
		I think Forward was merely trying to say that in the future men and women won't necessarily have the same appearances that they do now, probably because a lot of SF either ignores the issue or just assumes people will go on looking the same.
		Forward, too, is a fairly well-known scientist, with a PhD in Gravitational Physics, lots of patents, a successful consulting company, etc..
		I first came across Forward twenty-odd years ago (longer, if you count Larry Niven's literary references to him) in the pages of Analog, when that magazine published some extracts from "Dragon's Egg", his first novel.
	www.moss53.freeserve.co.uk /forward.htm (814 words)

	The Singing Diamond by Robert L. Forward
		Robert L. Forward is a Ph.D. who has specialized in gravitational physics; until his early retirement he was employed for most of his career as a researcher in industry.
		Physics, astronomy and space technology are Forward's playgrounds, and he is generally at his best in Hal Clement territory, describing carefully conceived alien settings and beings in the clear, unornamented prose of science writing.
		Then it occurred to Forward that he could do it himself, and he wrote the novel Dragon's Egg (1980), hard sf in the tradition of Hal Clement that made him world-famous with his first book.
	ebbs.english.vt.edu /exper/kcramer/anth/Singing.html (468 words)

	Fast Forward Fifty Years
		I was born on 15 August 1932 to Robert Torrey Forward, 32, and Mildred Lull Forward, 29, in what was then the small town of Geneva, NY.
		Robert Torrey Forward died in November 1957, and his grandson, Robert Dodson Forward, was born on 5 March 1958.
		Forward's works are currently archived at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.
	www.robertforward.com /Fast_Forward_Fifty_Years.htm (11975 words)

	Forward, Robert Lull (1932-2002)
		Forward obtained a B.S. in physics from the University of Maryland (1954), an M.S. in applied physics from the University of California, Los Angeles (1955), and a Ph.D. in gravitational physics from the University of Maryland (1965).
		Together with Robert P. Hoyt, he also developed the concept of using space tethers for powering orbital and interplanetary missions.
		From 1956 to 1987, he worked at Hughes Aircraft Company Corporate Research Laboratories in Malibu, California, and since 1962 has also ran his own consulting company devoted to investigating new energy sources and propulsion concepts.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/F/Forward.html (216 words)

	Physics Today August 2003 - Obituaries: Robert Lull Forward
		Forward lived up to his name: His thinking was well ahead of his time, and he was known for a positive, supportive, and playful manner.
		Of Forward's many innovations, some were realized in his life, but most will likely emerge in 21st-century space propulsion and gravitational wave detection.
		Forward was born on 15 August 1932 in Geneva, New York.
	www.physicstoday.org /vol-56/iss-8/p66.html (840 words)

	SPURS: Robert Horry Chat Transcript: Aug. 26, 2005
		Robert Horry is one of the winningest players in the history of the NBA, with six NBA Championship Rings to show for it.
		Robert Horry: Thanks to all the fans who logged on to chat with me today, and I'm sorry I was running a bit late.
		Robert Horry: Ha-ha (Laughing) I met Will at a fashion show, and our sons were gonna go to each other's birthday parties.
	www.nba.com /spurs/chat/robert_horry_transcript_050826.html (1054 words)

	Attorney Robert Forward, Gorry Meyer & Rudd, Los Angeles, California
		Forward also represents a growing number of companies in the software and technology area in various aspects of their business, and continues his involvement with foreign companies doing business in the United States and U.S. companies doing business aborad, in a number of different areas.
		Forward is fluent in Italian and French and conversant in Spanish.
		Forward is a member of the American Bar Associaton, the State Bar of California and the Los Angeles County Bar Association.
	gorrymeyerrudd.com /Bio/RobertForward.asp (356 words)

	Boing Boing: RIP, Robert L Forward
		Robert L Forward, a giant of hard science fiction, has died at 70 of brain cancer.
	www.boingboing.net /2002/09/23/rip_robert_l_forward.html (99 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: Saturn Rukh
		Robert L. Forward's hard SF novel, Saturn Rukh, sees a multi-national consortium send a team of six astronauts to mine precious meta, a helium fuel source, from the Saturnian atmosphere.
		Unfortunately, there is little suspense in their activities because, based on his plotting throughout the novel, Forward has made it apparent that he is willing to allow his characters to suddenly remember things that they all should have known the entire time.
		Apparently, none of the crew members have taken time to read the literature on their spacecraft, the mission, or their destination since Forward constantly is having characters explaining to each other, as a form of data dump, what the mission is, Saturn's parameters and the abilities of their equipment.
	www.sfsite.com /10a/sat18.htm (621 words)

	Random House Books Dragon's Egg by Robert L. Forward
		He is the owner and Chief Scientist of Forward Unlimited, a consultant firm specializing in exotic physics and advanced space propulsion, and a partner and chief scientist of Tethers Unlimited, a partnership formed in 1994 with Dr. Robert P. Hoyt, specializing in highly survivable space tethers.
		Robert L. Forward is a consulting scientist, future technologist, lecturer, and science fact and fiction writer.
		He is the author of ten science fiction novels, the sequel to Dragon's Egg, and three works of science fact plus numerous popular science articles and short stories.
	www.randomhouse.com /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780345435293 (307 words)

	Utah Space Association - Special Topics
		Robert Forward is a very well known and prolific science fiction writer.
		Robert Forward, "Mass Modification Definition Study (An Air Force Report)" Journal Of Scientific Exploration, vol.
		The gravitational mass and the inertial mass, of a body, are induced effects, brought about by changes in the fluctuation energy of the quantum vacuum, when the physical body is present.
	www.utahspace.org /special/forward.html (1305 words)

	The Independent (London, England): Obituary: Robert L. Forward; Physicist and science-fiction writer.(Obituaries)@ HighBeam Research
		Obituary: Robert L. Forward; Physicist and science-fiction writer.(Obituaries)
		"THE INTELLIGENT pattern of protoplasm that had been Robert L. Forward," wrote the American physicist and science-fiction writer Robert L. Forward not long before his death from brain cancer, "ceased coherent operation on September 21, 2002."
		Forward was a specialist in applied physics, which is another way of saying he specialised in the patenting and control of very near-future events.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:92119642&refid=holomed_1 (213 words)

	SS > SF > book reviews > Robert L. Forward
		Bob Forward describes things that are theoretically possible -- not ruled out by our current understanding of science -- but are so far advanced from our current technology that they seem like magic -- or science fiction -- to us today.
		Bob Forward, renowned for his ultra-hard SF, excels at weird alien physiologies.
		As usual with Bob Forward, read this novel for its hard science, not for its characterisations.
	www-users.cs.york.ac.uk /~susan/sf/books/f/forward.htm (505 words)

	Robert L. Forward's References
		Forward, Robert L. "Tether Transport from LEO to the Lunar Surface".
		Forward, Robert L. "Multidirectional, Multipolarization Antennas for Scalar and Tensor Gravitational Radiation." General Relativity and Gravitation 2 (1971): p.
		Forward, Robert L. "A National Space Program for Interstellar Exploration" "Future Space Programs 1975", Report of the Subcommittee on Space Science and Applications, Committee on Science and Technology, United States House of Representatives, 94th Congress, Vol.
	www.cc.utah.edu /~mf8222/RLFRefs.html (5412 words)

	FORWARD : Arts & Letters
		Robert Brustein is the creator of the musical "Shlemiel the First" and the artistic director of the American Repertory Theatre, where he is in rehearsals for a production of his own adaptation of Aristophanes' "Lysistrata."
	www.forward.com /issues/2002/02.04.05/arts4.html (1059 words)

	Dr. Robert L. Forward Home Page
		He is Owner and Chief Scientist of Forward Unlimited, a consulting firm established in 1962, specializing in exotic physics and advanced space propulsion, and Partner and Chief Scientist of Tethers Unlimited, a partnership formed in 1994 with Dr. Robert P. Hoyt, specializing in highly-survivable space tethers.
		Dr. Robert L. Forward is a consulting scientist, future technologist, lecturer, and science fact and science fiction writer.
		Note from Salmon Library: the Robert Forward Collection resides at the UAH Salmon Library, at Dr. Forward’s bequest.
	www.uah.edu /library/about/department/forward (107 words)

	spacetoday.net: Robert Forward passes away
		Noted scientist and futurist Robert Forward died Saturday of brain cancer at the age of 70.
		Forward published over 200 papers on research topics related to space travel, including solar sails, laser sails, tethers, and antimatter.
		Forward was also a well-regarded author of 11 science fiction novels, including Dragon's Egg.
	www.spacetoday.net /Summary/1181 (152 words)

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		A review of various technologies discussed by Dr. Robert Forward is presented as a tribute to Dr. Forward, and is based on selections from his writings and those of subsequent investigators.
		Abstract: A review of various technologies discussed by Dr. Robert Forward is presented as a tribute to Dr. Forward, and is based on selections from his writings and those of subsequent investigators.
		Some emphasis is placed on the new frontiers of space propulsion, power and communication.
	www.americanantigravity.com /articles/159/1/A-Review-of-Past-Insights-by-Dr.-Robert-L.-Forward/print/159 (178 words)

	Robert Forward, "The Owl"
		Forward has clearly put some effort into making his hero a believable character.
		That aside, this is an entertaining and well-written mystery with a very strong main character; recommended, and I'm looking forward to reading the sequel.
		L'Hiboux is a survivor, but that's because he's protected by body armour, a fibreglass hat, bulletproof sunglasses and a healthy paranoia — and, as he says,
	offog.org /books/20050127-the-owl.html (272 words)

	FLASH FORWARD Robert J
		Robert Sawyer opens the floor to a flood of thought provoking questions about destiny and free will.
		And although I’m relatively clueless, when it comes to physics or quantum theory etc (I thought a particle accelerator was a frat boy who drank too much!), Sawyer does a truly commendable job of presenting plausible “science” to go with the “fiction”.
		He also offers up any number of informed speculations on the subject, some of which are worth the price of admission alone.
	www.yetanotherbookreview.com /flash_forward.htm (445 words)

	Robert Forward: From Dragon's Eggs to Space Tethers
		A Strong Mesh and a Laser: Robert Forward on Tethers
		Del Rey Books' recently republication of Dragon's Egg, Forward's first novel, gave SPACE.com an opportunity to talk with him about his work developing both books and real-world space transportation systems.
		Robert Forward: From Dragon's Eggs to Space Tethers
	www.space.com /sciencefiction/books/forward_000328.html (900 words)

	FINNAN LOOKING FORWARD TO ROBERT BATTLE
		Steve Finnan is looking forward to Liverpool's Champions League clash in Benfica on Tuesday night and is relishing the battle he will come up against with former Newcastle winger Laurent Robert.
		Finnan rates Robert highly and knows how much of a threat he can be, but is confident he can contain him and stop the French winger causing Liverpool problems.
		"Beto in midfield knows how to shoot from distance, but their main threats will come from the wings with Robert and Simao (Sabrosa).
	www.liverpoolfc.tv /news/drilldown/N151532060221-1123.htm (407 words)

	Quotation from ``Dragon's Egg'', by Robert L. Forward
		Quotation from ``Dragon's Egg'', by Robert L. Forward
		As the ultra-strong gravitational fields of the two asteroids interacted, they whirled about one another at blinding speed and then took off in opposite directions on highly elliptical orbits that would meet again many months later at a point much closer to the nearby neutron star.
		The expedition was still six months away from Dragon's Egg, but it was time to start the activities of the automated probes that had been sent ahead by St. George.
	www.phys.uregina.ca /sparro/huber/dragons_egg.html (1049 words)

	13. Looking Forward. Stevenson, Robert Louis. 1913. A Child’s Garden of Verses and Underwoods
		Shaw, G.B. Stein, G. Stevenson, R.L. Wells, H.G. Robert Louis Stevenson > A Child’s Garden of Verses and Underwoods > 13.
	www.bartleby.com /188/113.html (47 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Saturn Rukh: Books
		This is my first book by Robert Forward, and I would read some of his other books as time permits...Enjoy....Mike
		Robert Forward has done better, July 4, 1998
		His human characters are a bit less believable at times, but once you know you like Forward's writing, that just seems stylistic.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0312863217 (343 words)

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