Gerald "G. David" Nordley's
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Education: BA Physics, Macalester College; MS Systems Management, University of Southern California

Gerald was born in 1947 in Minneapolis, MN, and grew up in nearby Golden Valley. He majored in Physics at Macalester College, graduating in 1969. Unprotected from the Vietnam era draft, Gerald enlisted in the US Air Force as an airman basic after college and surprised himself by staying for 20 years. Along the way, he earned a MS in systems management from the University of Southern California. His AF assignments included radar intercept control and battle management, with tours in Alaska and Korea, but he worked mostly as an astronautical engineer, managing satellite operations, engineering, and advanced propulsion research. In the latter capacity, he met and became inspired by physicist and author Bob Forward. He retired as a Major at the end of 1989 and started writing, using the G. David form of his name for fiction (though lately it has migrated to articles as well) and Gerald D. for technical papers and everything else, the intent being to separate the work in computer author searches. He continues to write a few pieces of short fiction each year, but finds himself doing more nonfiction lately and is currently concentrating on novels. He lives in Sunnyvale CA with his wife, Gayle Wiesner, a retired Apple Computer programer. Besides writing, he consultes in astronautical engineering, dabbles in real estate, sings in the choir of the Unitarian Universalist Church in Livermore and is the treasurer of CONTACT: Cultures of the Imagination, an interdisciplinary educational group concerned with issues related to the development of intelligent life from raw planets to cultural contacts. He is a fellow of the British Interplanetary Society; senior member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and a life member of SFWA and of the Air Force Association.

Science column for Speculations

Background material for the Black Hole Project

Fiction Sales as "G. David Nordley"

(in order of sale):

• "The Snows of Venus" (short story, Analog, May, 1991)
• "A Democracy of Cannibals" (short story, Midnight Zoo, 1991)
• "A Calendar of Chaos" (novelette, Analog, December, 1991)
• "Morning on Mars" (short story, Analog, June 1992)
• "In HIS Image" (short story, Analog, August, 1992)
• "Attraction" (vignette, Analog, January 1993)
• "Barriers" (short story, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October-November 1992)
• "P.C. Software" (short story, Analog, September 1992)
• "Poles Apart" (novella, Analog, Mid December 1992)
• "The Day of Their Coming" (short story, Asimov's, March 94)
• "Hunting the Space Whale" (novelette, Tomorrow, issue #4)
• "Into the Miranda Rift" (novella, Analog, July 1993//Year's Best SF, 11th Ed., 1994); Hugo nomination
• "Out of the Quiet Years" (novelette, Asimov's, July 1994)
• "Network" (novella, Analog, February 1994)
• "Tin Angel," (novella with H. G. Stratmann, Analog, July 1994)
• "Comet Gypsies," (novelette, Asimov's, TBD)
• "His Father's Voice," (short story, Analog, September 1994//Cyberdreams (France) 1995)
• "Karl's Marine and Spacecraft Repair," (novelette, Analog, Dec, 1994)
• "The Protean Solution" (short story, Tomorrow, issue #9)
• "Of Fire and Ice," (novelette, Mindsparks, Spring 1995)
• "Alice's Asteroid," (novelette, Asimov's, September 1995)
• "Dawn Venus," (novelette, Asimov's, August 1995)
• "Final Review," (novella, Analog, July 1995)
• "Martian Valkyrie," (novelette, Analog, January 1996)
• "The Kubota Effect," (short story, Analog, May 1996)
• "Fugue on a Sunken Continent," (novella, Analog, November 1996)
• "Messengers of Chaos," (novella, Asimov's, January 1997)
• "This Old Rock," (novelette, Analog, April 1997)
• "From Every Opening Flower" (novelette with Jonny Duffy, Analog, Sept 1997)
• "Crossing Chao Meng Fu" (novelette, Analog, Dec 1997)
• "A Life on Mars" (novelette, Analog, Jul/Aug 1998)
• "Democritus' Violin" (short story, Analog, April 1999)
• "Mustardseed" (vignette, Asimov's, August 1999)
• "The Touch" (short story, The Age of Reason (anth), 1999)
• "The Forest Between the Worlds," (novella, Asimov's, Feb 2000)
• "Relic of Chaos" (novella, Analog, Jan 2001)
• "Burdens" (short story, Artemis, Spring 2001)
• After the Vikings (story collection, Scorpius Digital, 2001 ebook, 2003 print)
• "War, Ice, Egg, Universe" (novelette, Asimov's, Oct-Nov 2002)
• "The Fire and the Wind" (novelette, Analog, July/Aug 2003)
• "Harpoon" (short story, Analog, Feb 2005)
• "Voice of Ages" (short story, Golden Age SF (anth),2006)
• "Kremer's Limit" (novella, with C.Sanford.Lowe, Analog, July-Aug 2006)
• "Imperfect Gods" (novella, with C.Sanford.Lowe, Analog, TBD)

Non Fiction, most as Gerald D. Nordley

(Partial list):

• "Space-Based Nuclear Microwave-Electric Propulsion,"(refereed paper, Space Nuclear Power Systems, Vol. 5, Orbit Books, Malabar FL, 1987)
• "Air Force Antimatter Technology Program," (review paper, Intense Positron Beams, World Scientific, Singapore, 1988)
• "Propellant Payoff from a Classical Perspective" in Proceedings of the High Energy Density Matter Conference, 12-15 March 1989 (tutorial, AL-CP-89-002, Astronautics Lab., Edwards AFB CA, July 89)
• "Application of Antimatter-Electric Power to Interstellar Propulsion,"(refereed paper, JBIS 43-6, June 90)
• "System Issues in Antimatter Energy Conversion,"(refereed paper, Space Nuclear Power Systems, Vol.10, Orbit Books, Malabar FL, 92)
• "Relativistic Particle Beams for Interstellar Propulsion," (refereed paper, JBIS, 46-4, April 1993)
• "Quantized Surface Gravity?!" (article, Analog, March 1994)
• "Do Boomba Count?" (guest editorial, Analog, Feb 1994)
• "Stationkeeping with Two-Way EML" (refereed technical note. JPP10-6, AIAA, Nov-Dec 1994)
• "Fuzzy Logic" (book review, Mindsparks, TBD)
• "Worlds of Air and Lightness," (article, Speculations, Feb & Apr 1996)
• "Surface Gravity and Interstellar Settlement," (paper, Proceedings of Contact XII, Feb 1996) [PDF, requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]
• "The Graphic Demise of FTL" (article, Speculations, Feb 1997)
• "Trimus, A Case History in SF Worldbuilding," (paper, Proceedings of Contact XIII, Feb, 1997)
• "Biological Hazards in Space," (article with Dr. Henry Stratmann, Analog, Apr 1998)
• "Medical Care in Space," (article with Dr. Henry Stratmann, Analog, May 1998)
• "Beamriders," (article, Analog, July/Aug 1999)
• "Mars-Earth Rapid Interplanetary Tether Transport" (refereed paper with Dr. R.L.Forward, AIAA/JPP 2001)
• "Tether-Tossed Mars Mission Examples" (preprint, AIAA 1001-3375, Joint Propulsion Conference, Salt Lake City, 8-11 July 2001)
• "Interstellar Probes Propelled by Self-steering Momentum Transfer Particles"(preprint, IAA-01-IAA.4.1.05, 52nd International Astronautical Congress, Toulouse, France, 1-5 Oct 2001)

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