G. David Nordley (pen name of Gerald David Nordley) is a retired Air Force major, astronautical engineering consultant, and writer with over 50 published works of non-fiction and short fiction, as well as a Mars-related story collection, _After the Vikings _ from Scorpiusdigital.com. He has won four "Anlab" readers' awards, and has been nominated for a Hugo and a Nebula. A Minnesota native, he has lived in California for over 30 years now and is married to a retired Macintosh computer programmer. In the last year, parts of a novel he has written with C. Sanford Lowe have been published as a series in Analog, and a story with Winston Churchill as its protagonist appeared in the _Golden Age SF_ anthology.
Recently published - After the Vikings (Scorpius Digital Publishing, 2004) The Black Hole Project (with C. Sanford Lowe, Published as a series of Novellas in Analog)