
Gerald Nordley is an author and astronautical engineer with degrees in physics and systems management. A retired Air Force officer, Gerald worked in spacecraft operations, production, and advanced propulsion. His last paper was "Mass Beam Propulsion: An Overview" with Adam Crowl in JBIS. He serves as Chairman of the Board for the Experimental Rocket Propulsion Society. He is also active in CONTACT: Cultures of the Imagination, an interdisciplinary space-oriented academic conference. As science fiction writer "G. David Nordley," his main interest is the future of human exploration and settlement of space. His stories focus on the dramatic aspects of individual lives within the broad sweep of a plausible human future. He is a past Hugo and Nebula award nominee as well as a four-time winner of the Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact annual "AnLab" reader's poll. His last novel was To Climb a Flat Mountain, and the latest book is a collection, A World Beneath the Stars, from Brief Candle Press. The latest sale at this writing is "Empress of Starlight" for Analog. He and his wife Gayle, a retired Apple software engineer, live in Sunnyvale, CA.
Sessions in which G. David Nordley participates
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- Applying "Kentucky windage" to technology development. San Mateo Marriott - Synergy 4
- 13:00 - 14:30 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Science fiction writers, space mission planners, and civic planers alike can focus too sharply on just one thread of technology development and mak...
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- What Kind of Planet Do We Want? San Mateo Marriott - Synergy 4
- 14:30 - 16:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Human beings have been part the ecology for so long that a "world without us" would be utterly different than anything that existed in the past. Li...
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- Monks in Space San Mateo Marriott - Synergy 5
- 10:00 - 11:30 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Many monastic traditions stress the importance of silence and solitude. Leaving behind all the material comforts of Earth for the "final frontier" ...
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- Non-biological pets San Mateo Marriott - Synergy 4
- 11:30 - 13:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Not virtual pets, but actual walking, (talking?) Robot dogs, cats, and mini dragons? They don't poop and you feed them electricity, or sunlight, an...
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- Next Year in New Jeruslaem: Religion and Expansion Into Space San Mateo Marriott - Connect 4
- 13:00 - 14:30 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Many religions have specific requirements, such as facing a holy site during prayer, or required pilgramages for the faithful. How do you do that ...
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- Dwarf Planets San Mateo Marriott - Synergy 5
- 17:30 - 19:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- We made to Pluto AND to Ceres - what did our probes find, and what about all of the other dwarf planets? Does Triton count? What about Planet X? Wh...
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- Martian Law San Mateo Marriott - Synergy 5
- 11:30 - 13:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
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- Science Fiction From Scientists San Mateo Marriott - Synergy 5
- 13:00 - 14:30 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- We will review the role that scientists and people with science training have had in writing science fiction in the 20 th and 21 st century, discus...
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- We Came In Peace For All Mankind San Mateo Marriott - Connect 6
- 14:30 - 16:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- When did Richard Nixon first sign words like that? What was NASA's original mission and how does that inform the current debate over Earth-looking ...