Since his first short story was published in 1984, Geoffrey A. Landis has written more than eighty works of short fiction, garnering all of science fiction's highest honors. His debut novel, Mars Crossing, earned a Nebula Award nomination in 2002. As a working scientist he has published more than 150 papers in the fields of photovoltaics and astronautics, holds four patents on solar cell designs and is the principle investigator and designer of a number of experiments running on unmanned space probes. In 1999, he was awarded a fellowship from the NASA Institute of Advanced Concepts to help design laser-pushed light sails for interstellar vehicles.
Landis live near Cleaveland, Ohio with his wife, author Mary Turzillo, where he works on advanced concepts for the NASA John Glenn Research Center.