6 Books by Charles Sheffield
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Overview: Charles A. Sheffield (June 25, 1935 – November 2, 2002), was an English-born mathematician, physicist and science fiction author. He had been a President of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America and of the American Astronomical Society.
His novel The Web Between the Worlds, featuring the construction of a space elevator, was published almost simultaneously with Arthur C. Clarke’s novel about that very same subject, The Fountains of Paradise, a coincidence that amused them both.
For some years he was the chief scientist of Earth Satellite Corporation, a company analysing remote sensing satellite data. This resulted in many technical papers and two popular non-fiction books, Earthwatch and Man on Earth, both collections of false colour and enhanced images of Earth from space.
Genre: Fiction » Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Brother to Dragons
The power of one…
Job. Against all evidence he never lost faith in his fellow man.
Job. Born on he bottom rung in an age that made ours seem Golden, his life went rapidly downhill from there.
Job. Cast adrift into a world he never made, but would change forever.
Job. Sometimes, one true man can make the difference.
Georgia on My Mind and Other Places
Fifteen of Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Charles Sheffield’s science fiction yarns are collected here for the first time, including the Nebula Award-winning Georgia on My Mind. One of the most imaginative, exciting talents to appear on the SF scene in recent years.–Publishers Weekly
Godspeed
Jay Hara is an ordinary young man growing up on the isolated planet of Erin. But Jay dreams of adventure and escapades and the legend of the lost “Godspeed” drive which allowed humans to travel at faster-than-light speeds.
His life changes when he joins up with the seedy spacer, Paddy Enderton and Captain Daniel Shaker. Captain Shaker is a charming but ruthless adventurer who inspires both fear and admiration in equal measure, and he and his questionable crew are joined by Jay as they race to find the legendary drive Jay Hara used to dream about.
Godspeed is a true coming-of-age tale told in the classic tradition of R.L. Stevenson’s Treasure Island. A modern day pirate story, set among the stars.
Hidden Variables
1982 Locus Poll Award, Best Single Author Collection (Place: 15). Collects 14 stories with introduction and afterwords by the author, including: The Man Who Stole the Moon, The Deimos Plague, Forefather Figure, Moment of Inertia (McAndrew series), The New Physics: The Speed of Lightness, Curved Space, and Other Heresies, From Natural Causes, Legacy (later incorporated into the novel Proteus), The Softest Hammer (1982 Locus Poll Award, Best Short Story (Place: 19)), Hidden Variable, A Certain Place in History, All the Colors of the Vacuum (McAndrew series), Perfectly Safe, Nothing To Worry About, Summertide (later incorporated into the novel Summertide), The Marriage of True Minds.
Vectors
From the absurd to the sublime, the universe according to Sheffield
In Which You Will Encounter
Technological Telepathy
A Politician Who Discovers The Artful Art of Thought-control
A Natural Philosopher Who Invents The Steamship — In Ancient Persia!
Erasmus Darwin, Brilliant Grandfather of Charles, In An Excitingly Different Kind Of Fantasy — Or Is It Really Science Fiction
The Incredible Waldo Burmeister, Star Of Thermodynamic Dieting And The Martian Sewer System
Structured by an astounding range of scientific knowledge, here are some of the most entertaining flights of the imagination on which you will ever book passage, from the viewpoint of one of the most astonishing minds you will ever meet.
My Brother’s Keeper
Lionel Salkind was glad for a visit from his twin brother Leo; the two rarely saw each other. Then their plane went down, and as he lost consciousness Lionel knew that Leo was dead. Lionel woke up in a hospital, to the eerie news that he owed his life to bits of his dead brother’s brain transplanted into his own skull. It was a very experimental operation, but it seemed to have been successful. And then the memories began. Terrifying snatches of memory that had no place in Lionel’s own quiet past. Leo’s memories, calling him somehow to finish a job half-done–a dangerous job whose importance to the world Lionel had not even begun to grasp.
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