# Gideon Marcus ## Posts - [Test Post](https://gideonmarcus.com/2022/02/test-post/): This is a test post - [Hello world!](https://gideonmarcus.com/2022/01/hello-world/): Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing! ## Pages - [Home](https://gideonmarcus.com/home-new/): Gideon Marcus Stand-up educator, professional space historian, and award-winning science fiction author. Book Now Learn More Appearances Gideon has been engaged to discuss the Space Race, women pioneers in science fiction and space science, politics and zeitgeist of the Cold War, and more. Booking Information Invite Gideon to speak at your institution. Gideon is accustomed to a wide range of venues: primary schools to universities, libraries to museums, clubs to conferences. About Gideon is a professional space historian, member of the American Astronautical Society’s history committee, and a much sought after public speaker. Testimonials “Gideon Marcus brings history to life […] - [Other Projects](https://gideonmarcus.com/other-projects/): Galactic Journey Imagine living at the dawn of the New Wave of science fiction and fantasy. A beleaguered LBJ is struggling with the War in Vietnam and a War on Poverty. The Gemini and Voskhod space programs are done, but tragedy has set back both Apollo and Soyuz. Star Trek is gracing the small screen, while 2001 is expected on the silver screen at the end of the year. Joanna Russ and Ursula K. Le Guin are promising new science fiction authors. Spider-Man, The Fantastic Four, The X-Men, and the Avengers are bursting onto the comics scene. What would it […] - [Fiction](https://gideonmarcus.com/fiction/): Gideon is a six-time Hugo Finalist and winner of both the Serling and the Space Cowboy Awards. Books: Kitra — The Kitra Saga #1 By Gideon Marcus Stranded in space: no fuel, no way home… and no one coming to help. From the pen of Hugo Finalist Gideon Marcus comes the found-family, YA Space Adventure you’ve been waiting for: Nineteen-year-old Kitra Yilmaz dreams of traveling the galaxy like her Ambassador mother. But soaring in her glider is the closest she can get to touching the stars — until she stakes her inheritance on a salvage Navy spaceship. On its shakedown […] - [About Me](https://gideonmarcus.com/press-kit/): Gideon Marcus Public speaker Publisher Science fiction author   PRESS KIT Bio (30 words) 6x Hugo Finalist, public speaker, founder of Journey Press and Galactic Journey, and professional space historian, Gideon has just finished Hyvilma, third book in The Kitra Saga. Bio (54 words) Public speaker and professional space historian Gideon Marcus is also founder of Journey Press and six time Hugo Finalist Galactic Journey.An acclaimed science fiction author, he has just finished Hyvilma, third book in The Kitra Saga. His short fiction can be found in Dark Matter, Utopia, Simultaneous Times, and elsewhere. Bio (75 words) Founder of Journey […] - [Booking Information](https://gideonmarcus.com/booking-information/): Invite me to your institution: From primary schools to universities, libraries to museums, clubs to conferences, in video chats and in person, I make learning fun… and funny! Space history: The First Space Race:  From the V-2 to Vanguard—the decade of competition that led to Sputnik White suit, Red suit: the American and Soviet human spaceflight programs, from Mercury to the Moon Landing Shattered Dreams (or why Elon Musk isn’t going to get us to Mars): How the promise of cheap spaceflight continues to elude us The first giant leap: paving the way to the Moon with robots: Pioneers, Rangers, […] - [Appearances](https://gideonmarcus.com/appearances/): Popular lecture series: Space history: The First Space Race:  From the V-2 to Vanguard—the decade of competition that led to Sputnik White suit, Red suit: the American and Soviet human spaceflight programs, from Mercury to the Moon Landing Shattered Dreams (or why Elon Musk isn’t going to get us to Mars): How the promise of cheap spaceflight continues to elude us The first giant leap: paving the way to the Moon with robots: Pioneers, Rangers, and Lunas, oh my! Unveiling the Gods: interplanetary probes to Venus, Mars, and beyond! Astronomy: Strange New Worlds: How we discovered the planets beyond our […] - [Blog](https://gideonmarcus.com/blog/) - [Home](https://gideonmarcus.com/) - [Sample Page](https://gideonmarcus.com/sample-page/): This is an example page. It’s different from a blog post because it will stay in one place and will show up in your site navigation (in most themes). Most people start with an About page that introduces them to potential site visitors. It might say something like this: Hi there! I’m a bike messenger by day, aspiring actor by night, and this is my website. I live in Los Angeles, have a great dog named Jack, and I like piña coladas. (And gettin’ caught in the rain.) …or something like this: The XYZ Doohickey Company was founded in 1971, […] [comment]: # (Generated by Hostinger Tools Plugin)