Geoffrey A. Landis
Geoffrey A. Landis emerged inlate 1980s as one offoremost scientist-writers inscience fiction genre.Landis holdsPh.D.solid-state physics from Brown University. He works forNASA John Glenn Research Center, where he generates advanced conceptsinterstellar propulsion. He has published more than 240 scientific papers infieldsastronauticsphotovoltaics. He wasmember ofRover team onMars Pathfinder mission,has been selectedbemember ofscience team onMars 2003 Exploration Rovers mission.
Infieldscience fiction, Landis has published over 60 worksshort fiction. His worknotableits mixhigh sciencetechnologyhonestdeep human emotion. He won1989 Nebula Awardbest short story"Ripples inDirac Sea" (Asimov's Science Fiction, October 1988), and1992 Hugo Award"A Walk inSun" (Asimov's Science Fiction, October 1991). His first novel, Mars Crossing, was published by Tor Books2000.
He attendedClarion Workshop1985,such other future SF luminaries as Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Martha Soukup, Bill Shunn, Resa Nelson,Robert J. Howe.
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