Charles Sheffield -- All Books

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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...

Between the Strokes of Night
Charles Sheffield / Unknown Binding / Published date unknown
(Publisher Out Of Stock)

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.

Brother to Dragons
Charles Sheffield / Paperback / Published November 1992
(Publisher Out Of Stock)
"One of the most imaginative, exciting talents to appear on the SF scene in recent years" (Publishers Weekly) presents a great "hard" SF novel. Born to a crack cocaine-addicted mother who abandoned him, Job Napoleon Salk would live to survive the horrors of a corruptly-run orphanage, life on the streets--even first love. But could he survive the dreaded TANDI, the toxic, nuclear disposal unit for all of America's "unwanted?" Original.

Cold As Ice
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.

Convergence ('Heritage Universe' Series)
Charles Sheffield / Unknown Binding / Published April 1997
(Publisher Out Of Stock)
Humans reached the stars and found the Artifacts--enigmatic structures, seemingly defying natural laws, left by an ancient vanished race. Suddenly, a new Artifact appears from nowhere, and other, older Artifacts begin to alter their already inexplicable activities. Now, a motley crew of scientists and treasure hunters set out for three different Artifacts, in search of answers.

Dancing With Myself
Charles Sheffield / Unknown Binding / Published date unknown
(Publisher Out Of Stock)
A combination of science fiction stories and science fictional fact explores the technology of the future and the impact that it will have on everyday life.

Divergence (The Heritage Universe, Book 2)
Charles Sheffield / Unknown Binding / Published date unknown
(Publisher Out Of Stock)
A group of single-minded researchers--among them Darya Lang, Hans Rebka, and Louis Nenda and the Cecropian--follow the trail toward the Builder artifacts released from the Quake during Summertide, the planetary upheaval. Reprint. NYT.

Divergence (The Heritage Universe, Book 2)
Charles Sheffield / Unknown Binding / Published date unknown
(Publisher Out Of Stock)
A group of single-minded researchers--among them Darya Lang, Hans Rebka, and Louis Nenda and the Cecropian--follow the trail toward the Builder artifacts released from the Quake during Summertide, the planetary upheaval. Reprint. NYT.

Future Quartet : Earth in the Year 2042 : A Four-Part Invention
Ben Bova, et al / Hardcover / Published April 1994
(Publisher Out Of Stock)
Ben Bova, Frederik Pohl, Jerry Pournelle, and Charles Sheffield share a collection of original stories and essays that speculate on what the world will be like fifty years from now and discuss the sociological and technological implications of their expectations.

Future Quartet : Earth in the Year 2042 : A Four-Part Invention
Ben Bova, et al / Unknown Binding / Published date unknown
(Publisher Out Of Stock)
Basing their projections on technological, scientific, environmental, and biomedical forecasts, four leading science fiction authors--Ben Bova, Frederik Pohl, Jerry Pournelle, and Charles Sheffield--offer unique, vastly different views of the future. Reprint.

Georgia on My Mind and Other Places
Charles Sheffield / Unknown Binding / Published February 1995
(Publisher Out Of Stock)
A collection of fifteen of the author's most successful short works includes the Nebula Award-winning title story, "The Feynman Solution," and "Destroyer of Worlds." By the author of Godspeed.

Georgia on My Mind and Other Places
Charles Sheffield / Unknown Binding / Published October 1996
(Publisher Out Of Stock)

Godspeed
Charles Sheffield / Mass Market Paperback / Published November 1994
(Publisher Out Of Stock)
Growing up on the isolated space colony of Erin, Jay Hara dreams about the legendary days of interstellar trade and the Godspeed ships, until an old, sick spacer named Paddy Enderton tells him of a hidden Godspeed base. Reprint.

Godspeed
Charles Sheffield / Unknown Binding / Published November 1993
(Publisher Out Of Stock)
A young man grows up on a distant colonial planet that has been stranded for two hundred years, since the mysterious alien Godspeed Drive technology suddenly self-destructed. By the author of Cold as Ice.

Hidden Variables
Charles Sheffield / Unknown Binding / Published date unknown
(Publisher Out Of Stock)

Higher Education : A Jupiter Novel
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 Novel
Charles 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 World
Charles 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 ...

Man on Earth : How Civilization and Technology Changed the Face of the World-A Survey from Space
Charles Sheffield / Unknown Binding / Published date unknown
(Publisher Out Of Stock)

My Brother's Keeper
Charles Sheffield / Mass Market Paperback / Expected June 2000
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My Brother's Keeper
Charles Sheffield / Unknown Binding / Published date unknown
(Publisher Out Of Stock)

One Man's Universe : The Continuing Chronicles of Arthur Morton McAndrew (Tor Science Fiction)
Charles Sheffield / Unknown Binding / Published date unknown
(Publisher Out Of Stock)
Collects all of the author's stories starring top physicist Arthur Morton McAndrew, including two new novellas and an updated commentary on the discoveries in physics that inspired the fiction. Original.

Proteus Combined
Charles Sheffield / Mass Market Paperback / Published May 1994
(Publisher Out Of Stock)
Through 22nd-century technology, man has the ability not only to heal himself, but to alter his shape at will. Behrooz Wolf invented the process of Form Change--now he would have to tame its darker aspects. A past president of the American Astronautical Society, Charles Sheffield is a recognized science fiction writer and scientist.

Proteus in the Underworld
Charles 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.

Proteus Unbound
Charles Sheffield / Unknown Binding / Published date unknown
(Publisher Out Of Stock)

Putting Up Roots : A Jupiter Novel
Charles 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 Novel
Charles 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.

Sight of Proteus
Charles Sheffield / Unknown Binding / Published date unknown
(Publisher Out Of Stock)

Space Careers
Charles Sheffield, Carol Rosin / Paperback / Published January 1985
(Publisher Out Of Stock)

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.

Starfire
Charles Sheffield / Mass Market Paperback / Expected June 2000
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Summertide
Charles Sheffield / Unknown Binding / Published January 1991
(Publisher Out Of Stock)
It was just before Summertide, the time when the twin planets, Opal and Quake, would orbit closest to their sun, subjecting both -- but Quake in particular -- to vast tidal forces. And it was to be the most violent Summertide ever, due to the Grand Conjunction of the system's stars and planets, something that happened only every 350,000 years.

Summertide (The Heritage Universe, Book 1)
Charles Sheffield / Unknown Binding / Published February 1990
(Publisher Out Of Stock)
It was just before Summertide, the time when the twin planets, Opal and Quake, would orbit closest to their sun, subjecting both -- but Quake in particular -- to vast tidal forces. And it was to be the most violent Summertide ever, due to the Grand Conjunction of the system's stars and planets, something that happened only every 350,000 years.

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 Novel
Charles 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 McAndrew
Charles Sheffield / Mass Market Paperback / Published April 2000
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The Cyborg from Earth : A Jupiter Novel
Charles 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 Novel
Charles 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 Club
Charles 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 Judas Cross
Charles Sheffield, David Bischoff / Unknown Binding / Published December 1994
(Publisher Out Of Stock)
Guarding an ancient cross that is believed to hold the soul of the disciple Judas Iscariot, Marquis Louis Villette, a knight of an ancient secret order, witnesses the devastating effects of world war on his French homeland and his loved ones.

The McAndrews Chronicles
Charles Sheffield / Paperback / Published January 1988
(Publisher Out Of Stock)

The Mind Pool
Charles 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.

The Selkie
Charles Sheffield, David Bischoff / Unknown Binding / Published March 1982
(Publisher Out Of Stock)

The Selkie
Charles Sheffield, David Bischoff / Unknown Binding / Published date unknown
(Publisher Out Of Stock)

The Web Between the Worlds
Charles Sheffield / Unknown Binding / Published date unknown
(Publisher Out Of Stock)

The web between the worlds
Charles Sheffield / Unknown Binding / Published date unknown
(Publisher Out Of Stock)

The World of 2044 : Technological Development and the Future of Society
Charles Sheffield(Editor), et al / Hardcover / Published February 1995
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Contributed articles.

The World of 2044 : Technological Development and the Future of Society
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 Tomorrow
Charles 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.

Trader's World
Charles Sheffield / Unknown Binding / Published date unknown
(Publisher Out Of Stock)

Transcendence (The Heritage Universe, Book 3)
Charles Sheffield / Unknown Binding / Published date unknown
(Publisher Out Of Stock)
An aggressive, conquering race thought to be long-dead after an insurrection by their slaves, the Zardalu suddenly return, and it soon becomes apparent that the Zardalu fate is linked to the plans of an alien race known as the Builders.

Transcendence (The Heritage Universe, Book 3)
Charles Sheffield / Unknown Binding / Published date unknown
(Publisher Out Of Stock)
Set loose after millions of years trapped in stasis, a handful of Zardalu are transported to galactic parts unknown, free to ravage any world and any race within their grasp. Reprint.

Transvergence
Charles 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.

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