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G. David Nordley

he/him

writer, consultant
ERPS
Participates in 9 items
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

Friday 27 May, 2016

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Saturday 28 May, 2016

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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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  • 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...

Sunday 29 May, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada)
11:30
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Monday 30 May, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada)
14:30
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