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G. David Nordley

he/him

writer, consultant
ERPS
Participates in 6 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 26 May, 2017

Time Zone: (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada)
15:00
15:00
  • Policing Space
  • San Mateo Marriott - Connect 5
  • 15:00 - 16:30  | 1 hour 30 minutes
  • We don't want terrorists dropping rocks on our heads at 40 km/s, right? We don't want someone to turn a place on the Moon into a Meth lab, right? W...

Saturday 27 May, 2017

Time Zone: (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada)
11:30
11:30

Sunday 28 May, 2017

Time Zone: (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada)
13:00
13:00
  • Escape Velocity
  • San Mateo Marriott - Inspire 1
  • 13:00 - 14:30  | 1 hour 30 minutes
  • Whether it’s the Enterprise exploring new realms now that the Earth is in balance or the corporate plundering of Weyland-Yutani, most science ficti...
14:30
14:30

Monday 29 May, 2017

Time Zone: (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada)
11:30
11:30
13:00
13:00