Author Biography and Bibliography


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Author Biography

Science-fiction writer Geoffrey Landis is the author of over fifty published short stories and novelettes, and twenty poems. He has won both the Nebula and Hugo awards for science fiction short stories. His first novel, Mars Crossing, was published by Tor in December, 2000, and a short story collection, Impact Parameter, will appear from Golden Gryphon this November. His work has been translated into nineteen languages.

As well as a writer of science fiction, Geoffrey Landis is a research scientist with the Space Power and Propulsion Division of the N.A.S.A. John Glenn Research Center. His work on the Mars Pathfinder project involves understanding the effect of Martian dust on the solar energy reaching the surface of Mars. He has published over two hundred scientific papers in the fields of photovoltaics, space power and propulsion systems, and astronautics, and holds four patents. He lives in Berea, Ohio, with his wife, science-fiction writer Mary Turzillo, and two cats, Lurker and Lepton, neither of whom write.

More information is available at his web site:
http://www.sff.net/people/geoffrey.landis.





Photograph by Mary A. Turzillo