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    Geoffrey Alan Landis (/ˈlændɪs/; born May 28, 1955) is an American aerospace engineer and author, working for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration...
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  • child actor Frederick Landis, U.S. Representative from Indiana Gerald W. Landis, American educator and politician Geoffrey A. Landis, American scientist...
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    2002, Geoffrey A. Landis of NASA's Glen Research center also proposed a laser-powered, propulsion, sail ship that would host a diamond sail (of a few nanometers...
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  • Contact is a 1985 hard science fiction novel by American scientist Carl Sagan. It deals with the theme of contact between humanity and a more technologically...
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  • Concerning Hart's contributions to the study of the paradox, Geoffrey A. Landis writes: "A more proper name for [the paradox] would be the Fermi-Hart paradox...
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    scholar.google.com. Geoffrey A. Landis. Laser-powered Interstellar Probe Archived 2012-07-22 at the Wayback Machine on the Geoffrey A. Landis: Science. papers...
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    screenwriter. One of the most celebrated 20th-century American writers, he worked in a variety of genres, including fantasy, science fiction, horror, mystery, and...
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  • (story), a 1984 story by Geoffrey A. Landis Elementals (Comico Comics), an American superhero comic book by Bill Willingham Elementals (comics), a number...
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  • is a 2023 fantasy novel by Sri Lankan author Vajra Chandrasekera. The novel follows the story of a man trained from a young age to assassinate a prominent...
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    google.com. Geoffrey A. Landis. Laser-powered Interstellar Probe Archived 22 July 2012 at the Wayback Machine on the Geoffrey A. Landis: Science. papers...
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    vapour bubbles in bodily fluids due to reduced environmental pressure Geoffrey A. Landis. "Human Exposure to Vacuum". Archived from the original on 2009-07-21...
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  • established; the award was defined only as a work "of less than novel length" that was not published as a stand-alone book. In addition to the regular...
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  • the Robert A. Heinlein Award". Locus Online. Archived from the original on October 25, 2012. Retrieved May 19, 2013. "Geoffrey A. Landis to Receive 2014...
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    Moon" (1971) and "The Hole Man" (1974) Greg Bear, "Tangents" (1986) Geoffrey A. Landis, "A Walk in the Sun" (1991) Vernor Vinge, "Fast Times at Fairmont High"...
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    28 December 2020. Landis, Geoffrey A. (1991). "Laser-Powered Interstellar Probe". APS Bulletin. 36 (5): 1687–1688. Landis, Geoffrey A. (1994). "Laser-powered...
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    pressure too great. As scientifically and fictionally described by Geoffrey A. Landis, the easiest planet (other than Earth) to place floating cities at...
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    1073/pnas.051511598. PMC 30108. PMID 11226208. Geoffrey A. Landis. "Human Exposure to Vacuum". Geoffrey A. Landis. Archived from the original on July 21, 2009...
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    Robert L. Forward; Michael S. Morris; Matt Visser; Gregory Benford & Geoffrey A. Landis (1995). "Natural Wormholes as Gravitational Lenses". Physical Review...
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    fiction author and a multiple recipient of the Hugo and Nebula awards. In 1995, Butler became the first science-fiction writer to receive a MacArthur Fellowship...
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    surface, humans might attempt to settle the Venusian atmosphere. Geoffrey A. Landis of NASA's Glenn Research Center has summarized the perceived difficulties...
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  • Kushiel's Dart is a fantasy novel by American writer Jacqueline Carey, the first book in her Kushiel's Legacy series. The idea for the book first came...
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  • of Our Minds with Joy" by David Marusek "Willy in the Nano-lab" by Geoffrey A. Landis Nanotech title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database...
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    until a resurgence of interest in the 1980s. A number of approaches to terraforming are reviewed by Martyn J. Fogg (1995) and by Geoffrey A. Landis (2011)...
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  • memorabilia, including a witch's confession, a real snuff film and, after being sent an email directly about the item online, a dead man's funeral suit...
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    September 2020. Retrieved 16 March 2021. Zephyr: A Landsailing Rover For Venus. (PDF) Geoffrey A. Landis, Steven R. Oleson, David Grantier, and the COMPASS...
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  • story is about Jack, a first-generation American son of a white American father and a Chinese immigrant mail-order bride mother. As a child, Jack is enchanted...
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    from the original on 22 October 2015. Retrieved 3 November 2015. Geoffrey A. Landis, "Footsteps to Mars: an Incremental Approach to Mars Exploration"...
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    Apsis (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    perimelasma and apomelasma (from a Greek root) were used by physicist and science-fiction author Geoffrey A. Landis in a story published in 1998, thus appearing...
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    Chesterton, and both William Shakespeare and Geoffrey Chaucer appear as characters, as do several characters from A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Tempest...
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  • pushed by a microwave beam. It was proposed by scientist and author Robert L. Forward in 1985, and further work was published by Geoffrey A. Landis in 2000...
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