Science-fiction writer Geoffrey Landis is the author of over forty published short stories and novelettes, and twenty poems. His story "Ripples in the Dirac Sea" won the Nebula award for best short story in 1990; in 1992 his short story "A Walk in the Sun" won the Hugo award. More recently, his fantasy "The Kingdom of Cats and Birds" is a finalist for the 1996 Nebula award. His work has been translated into fourteen languages, and the Portugese translation of "Ripples in the Dirac Sea" won the Brazilian Reader's Poll award for best short story. His collection "Myths, Legends, and True History" was published in 1991 by the small press publisher Pulphouse as part of their Author's Choice Monthly series. His most recent story, "Farthest Horizons," appears in the May issue of Science Fiction Age.

Aside from writing, Dr. Landis is a scientist with the Ohio Aerospace Institute on permanent assignment to the N.A.S.A. Lewis Research Center. He has published over a hundred scientific papers in the fields of photovoltaics and astronautics, holds four patents on photovoltaic device designs, and organized and served as the technical chairman of the Vision-21 symposium. His current research topic is to develop scientific instrumentation for the upcoming "Pathfinder" Mars probe.

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