Aftermath
Charles Sheffield / Mass Market Paperback / Published September 1999
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In 2026, the Earth faces an unexpected disaster. A supernova in the nearby Alpha Centauri system has apparently wiped out nearly every electronic component on the planet, leaving human civilization paralyzed. Phones don't work, transportation grinds to a halt, and essential services such as medical care are thrown back into the Stone Age. As the world tries to cope with this technological cut-off, a man dying of cancer begins a journey to save his life and that of his fellow patients, a master criminal escapes a sentence of "judiciary sleep," a returning Mars expedition faces what looks like c...
Aftermath (Bantam Spectra Book)
Charles Sheffield / Paperback / Published September 1998
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In 2026, the Earth faces an unexpected disaster. A supernova in the nearby Alpha Centauri system has apparently wiped out nearly every electronic component on the planet, leaving human civilization paralyzed. Phones don't work, transportation grinds to a halt, and essential services such as medical care are thrown back into the Stone Age. As the world tries to cope with this technological cut-off, a man dying of cancer begins a journey to save his life and that of his fellow patients, a master criminal escapes a sentence of "judiciary sleep," a returning Mars expedition faces what looks like c...
Borderlands of Science : How to Think Like a Scientist and Write Science Fiction
Charles Sheffield / Hardcover / Published November 1999
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The renowned science fiction writer explores the territories that science is just beginning to penetrate, in a compelling and prescient book about the future of scientific inquiry.
Charles Sheffield / Mass Market Paperback / Published June 1993
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This hard science fiction novel opens 25 years after the great war between the Inner Planets (Earth and Mars) and the millions who had colonized the asteroid belt and the moons of Jupiter. Nine billion people were killed by the terrible weapons created and used. The rivalries that lead to the war are not gone--and a few of those deadly weapons remain. . . . HC: Tor.
Charles Sheffield, Jerry Pournelle (Contributor) / Mass Market Paperback / Published April 1997
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Kicked out of school after a misfired practical joke, Rick Luban takes a job mining asteroids and is surprised by the industry's fierce competition and dangers, which include sabotage and murder. Reprint. AB. PW.
Higher Education; A Jupiter NovelCharles Sheffield, Jerry Pournelle (Contributor) / Hardcover / Published June 1996
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Kicked out of school because of a practical joke that backfires, Rick Luban gets a second chance when he signs up for a career in asteroid mining and discovers that life in space is far more challenging than he had ever imagined.
How to Save the WorldCharles Sheffield(Editor) / Paperback / Published February 1999
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Do desperate times call for desperate measures? Charles Sheffield asked a bunch of writers who commonly speculate about the future's fringe to consider how to save the world from its most debilitating disease--humanity. James P. Hogan imagines a future where anyone can be killed instantly if five others agree that the offending person should die. The result is an amazingly polite and courteous (if terrified) society. Geoffrey Landis indulges the idea that altering DNA to eliminate our differences might look like a good solution to racism, at least to an earnest group of biotech wizards. Other ...
My Brother's KeeperCharles Sheffield / Mass Market Paperback / Expected June 2000
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Proteus in the UnderworldCharles Sheffield / Mass Market Paperback / Published May 1995
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A series of well-intentioned technologies enable twenty-second-century humans to transform their bodies into any conceivable form, and in the resulting chaos, a dangerous new life form is discovered.
Putting Up Roots : A Jupiter NovelCharles Sheffield / Hardcover / Published September 1997
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Young Josh Kerrigan stakes a farming claim on a distant planet twenty-seven light years from Earth, but when his autistic cousin makes contact with a mysterious alien creature in this entirely new ecosystem, Josh's life becomes even more complicated."
Putting Up Roots : A Jupiter NovelCharles Sheffield / Mass Market Paperback / Published November 1998
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Shelby Crawford Jerome Prescott Cheever V is "The Billion Dollar Boy", one of the richest young men of the 22nd century. His life on Earth has been spent in idle luxury, until a careless mistake strands him on a mining ship in the Messina Dust Cloud, 27 light years from Earth. Far from his fortune, Shelby must learn how to survive in space--and discovers the shape of his destiny.
Star Fire (Bantam Spectra Book)Charles Sheffield / Paperback / Published December 1999
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The sky is falling--again. Following up on 1998's excellent Aftermath, Starfire subjects planet Earth to yet another cosmic blast from the Alpha Centauri supernova. But while the blast that hit Earth in Aftermath simply cooked the Southern hemisphere and knocked out unshielded technology with a flash of gamma rays, this wave promises to do some real damage, with a sleet of trillion-nuclei bundles moving at one-tenth the speed of light.
StarfireCharles Sheffield / Mass Market Paperback / Expected June 2000
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The Billion Dollar Boy (Jupiter Novel)Charles Sheffield / Hardcover / Published April 1997
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Jupiter books presents an ambitious new line of original novels featuring all the virtues of classic science fiction--fast adventure, colorful characters, rigorous scientific accuracy, and thought-provoking ideas. Shelby Cheever V is "The Billion Dollar Boy, " one of the richest men of the 22nd century when a careless mistake finds himself on a mining ship 27 light years from Earth.
The Billion Dollar Boy : A Jupiter NovelCharles Sheffield / Mass Market Paperback / Published July 1998
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The second novel in the "Jupiter" series finds "The Billion Dollar Boy", young Shelby Crawford Jerome Prescott Cheever V, far from his fortune, learning how to survive in space while discovering the shape of his destiny.
The Compleat McAndrewCharles Sheffield / Mass Market Paperback / Published April 2000
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The Cyborg from Earth : A Jupiter NovelCharles Sheffield / Hardcover / Published March 1998
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Heir to a powerful dynasty, Jefferson Kopal has never lived up to his family's expectations. When he blows his entrance exams to the deep space navy, he assumes his future is over--but then he's tapped for an urgent mission to the farthest depths of outer space .
The Cyborg from Earth : A Jupiter NovelCharles Sheffield / Mass Market Paperback / Published January 1999
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Heir to a powerful military dynasty, Jeff Kopal has never lived up to his family's expectations. When he blows his naval entrance exams, he assumes his future is over. But if he's such a screwup, why is he being sent by the navy into deep space to deal with rebellious cyborgs? Something isn't right, and Jeff must figure out the real reasons behind the mission--or risk becoming a pawn in someone else's deadly game.
The Ganymede ClubCharles Sheffield / Mass Market Paperback / Published October 1996
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Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Charles Sheffield returns to the Solar System of his novel Cold As Ice, to spin a tale of the years immediately following the Great War, a horrifying spasm that was over in weeks, but killed half the human race. HC: Tor.
The Mind PoolCharles Sheffield / Mass Market Paperback / Published May 1995
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In the 23rd century, out of all the races of the galaxy, only humanity has discovered the secret of travel between the stars. When a threat to all life arises from non-living cyborgs, suddenly the peculiar human virtues of valor and stubbornness make the despised Earthlings the saviors of all. Original.
Charles Sheffield(Editor), et al / Hardcover / Published February 1995
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Contributed articles.
Charles Sheffield, et al / Paperback / Published September 1994
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Contributed articles.
Tomorrow & Tomorrow (Bantam Spectra Book)Charles Sheffield / Mass Market Paperback / Published February 1998
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"Ambitious, elegiac, and ultimately satisfying" ("The San Francisco Chronicle Book Review"), this emotionally powerful saga of a composer who turns to futuristic science to save his dying wife offers both a chilling picture of mankind's future--and a beautiful rendering of eternal love. Ads in "Locus".
Tomorrow and TomorrowCharles Sheffield / Paperback / Published January 1997
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A multi-award-winning author creates a powerful portrait of the distant future, featuring a musician who tries to save his fatally ill wife in an experiment that goes terribly wrong and catapults them both into the future.
TransvergenceCharles Sheffield / Paperback / Published November 1999
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When a group of humans accidentally reawakens a hoard of alien Zardalu caught in suspended animation for aeons, the ancient Zardalu rein of terror over the galaxy threatens to reemerge once again. Original.