Passer au contenu de la page principale

G. David Nordley

he/him

writer, consultant
ERPS
Participe à 6 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

Samedi 26 Mai, 2018

Fuseau horaire: (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada)
11:30 AM
11:30 AM
Creature Design and Anatomy
1 heure 30 minutes, 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

San Mateo Marriott - Convene 1

Keliana Tayler (Modérateur.rice)

Margaret Organ-Kean (Participant.e)

Jacob Fisk (Participant.e)

G. David Nordley, ERPS (Participant.e)

4:00 PM
4:00 PM
O'Neill Space Habitats as a Real Estate Operation
1 heure 30 minutes, 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

San Mateo Marriott - Connect 1

G. David Nordley, ERPS (Modérateur.rice)

Candace Lowe, Silicon Valley Authors (Participant.e)

Bradford Lyau, Community Guest of Honor (Participant.e)

Given robots to mine the materials and do almost all the labor, how much would it really cost to build a hundred-thousand person habitat?  Wou...

Dimanche 27 Mai, 2018

Fuseau horaire: (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada)
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
Master Class (copy)
1 heure 30 minutes, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

San Mateo Marriott - Connect 4

David Friedman, School of Law, Santa Clara University (Participant.e)

G. David Nordley, ERPS (Participant.e)

1:00 PM
1:00 PM
It Began With A Monster
1 heure 30 minutes, 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

San Mateo Marriott - Connect 3

Jason Malcolm Stewart (Modérateur.rice)

Carrie Sessarego, Smart Bitches Trashy Books (Participant.e)

Megan Messinger (Participant.e)

G. David Nordley, ERPS (Participant.e)

Lillian Csernica, Sense of Wonder Press (Participant.e)

200 years ago, Mary Shelley published the singular novel that set the stage for modern genre literature: Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. I...

Lundi 28 Mai, 2018

Fuseau horaire: (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada)
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
Martian Weather
1 heure 30 minutes, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

San Mateo Marriott - Connect 1

Candace Lowe, Silicon Valley Authors (Modérateur.rice)

G. David Nordley, ERPS (Participant.e)

Dr Heidi L Stauffer, Lydian Academy (Participant.e)

How do dust devils, that are immensely taller on Mars, generate electrical discharges? How will the next rover to Mars tell us about  Mars cli...
1:00 PM
1:00 PM
Looking in the Mirror for Answers to the Fermi Question?
1 heure 30 minutes, 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

San Mateo Marriott - Synergy 1

G. David Nordley, ERPS (Modérateur.rice)

David Friedman, School of Law, Santa Clara University (Participant.e)

Jay Freeman, Me ... organized? (Participant.e)

Where are they?  What do trends in our own recent history suggest about how a really advanced civilization might deal with interstellar distan...