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Geoffrey A. Landis is a poet, a science-fiction writer and a scientist. As a poet, he has won the Rhysling, Dwarf Stars, and Asimov’s Readers Awards. As a SF writer, he has won the Hugo and Nebula awards. As a scientist, he is a Mars scientist and a NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts fellow. He also fences épée. More information is on his web page, http://www.geoffreylandis.com/
Geoffrey A. Landis
The Forest, in the Full of the Moon, poem, Issue 53, December 2020
Get to know Geoffrey...
Birthdate?
May 28.
When did you start writing?
I’d written the odd piece now and then when I was younger, but I only started seriously writing a few years after I got out of college.
When and what and where did you first get published?
I wrote my first story when I was in graduate school, a story about (guess what) graduate students studying magic, in a society in which magic was just considered another technology. It was accepted on the submission, and ended up being the cover story of the December 1984 issue of Analog.
Why do you write?
It seemed to me that I’d gotten a lot out of science fiction and fantasy, and to be fair I should return something back.
Why do you write Science Fiction and/or Fantasy?
Imagination rules! I’d have to say, science fiction and fantasy has always been a central part of my life. I expect to spend the rest of my life in the future, why shouldn’t I write about it?
Who is your favorite author? Your favorite story?
The answer to that will change from day to day, maybe from minute to minute, depending on when you ask. Usually, my favorite author is the one I’m reading right now. Today, I think I’ll go with Greg Egan as my favorite author; his work can be quite astonishing, if you like stories where you have to follow the math. Loved his recent story “The Slipway;” it took me a couple of hours to convince myself yes, he was three steps ahead of me every step of the way
What are you trying to say with your fiction?
Well, stories mostly should explain themselves. But some part of what I’m saying, look, the world is a weird and wonderful place. We need to explore it!
If you could write your own epitaph, what would it say?
Here lies Geoffrey Landis, who died at the age of 978 while exploring the ice-caves of Pluto’s moon Charon.
Do you blog?
For about ten years I was the organizer and administrator of clevelandpoetics, a blog for and about the poetry community in Cleveland. Just this year I passed that duty along, though. Now the closest I come is posting on Facebook.
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