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G. David Nordley

writer, consultant
The Experimental Rocket Propulsion Society
Participe à 9 sessions
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 auxquelles G. David Nordley participe

Vendredi 27 Mai, 2016

Fuseau horaire: (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada)
13:00
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14:30
14:30
  • What Kind of Planet Do We Want?
  • Synergy 4
  • 14:30 - 16:00  | 1 heure 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...

Samedi 28 Mai, 2016

Fuseau horaire: (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada)
10:00
10:00
  • Monks in Space
  • Synergy 5
  • 10:00 - 11:30  | 1 heure 30 minutes
  • Many monastic traditions stress the importance of silence and solitude. Leaving behind all the material comforts of Earth for the "final frontier" ...
11:30
11:30
  • Non-biological pets
  • Synergy 4
  • 11:30 - 13:00  | 1 heure 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...
13:00
13:00
17:30
17:30
  • Dwarf Planets
  • Synergy 5
  • 17:30 - 19:00  | 1 heure 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...

Dimanche 29 Mai, 2016

Fuseau horaire: (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada)
11:30
11:30
13:00
13:00
  • Science Fiction From Scientists
  • Synergy 5
  • 13:00 - 14:30  | 1 heure 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...

Lundi 30 Mai, 2016

Fuseau horaire: (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada)
14:30
14:30
  • We Came In Peace For All Mankind
  • Connect 6
  • 14:30 - 16:00  | 1 heure 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 ...