Published Works

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Non Fiction, most as Gerald D. Nordley
(Partial list: see also "downloads" and "Speculations"):

• "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 Issuesin 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)
  
  
• "Two-Way EML and Particle Beam Propulsion" (presentation, in JPL D-10673: Proceedings of the NASA/OAST Fourth Advanced Space Propulsion Workshop April 5-7 1993, Frisbee, R.H. ed.1993)Adobe Acrobat Reader
  
  
• "Quantized Surface Gravity?!" (article, Analog, March 1994)
  
  
• "Do BoombaCount?" (guest editorial, Analog, Feb 1994)
  
  
• "Stationkeeping with Two-Way EML" (refereed technical note. JPP 10-6, AIAA, Nov-Dec 1994)
  
  
• "Fuzzy Logic" (book review, Mindsparks ( 1995?)
  
  
• "Worlds of Air and Lightness" (article, Speculations ,Feb & Apr 1996)
  
  
• "Surface Gravity and Interstellar Settlement" (paper, Proceedings of Contact XII, Feb 1996) Adobe Acrobat Reader
  
  
• "The Graphic Demise of FTL" Graphic.doc Graphic.pdf (article, Speculations ,Feb 1997)
  
  
• "Lightspeed Universe" Lightspeed.doc Lightspeed.pdf (article, Speculations ,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)
  
  
• "Engines for the High Fronteir" Lightspeed Magazine Sept. 2010)
  
  
• "Mass Beam Propulsion: An Overview" (refereed paper with Adam Crowl, Journal of the British Interplanetary Society Vol 68 no. 5/6 May/June 2015)