Charles Sheffield -- Recent and Upcoming Books

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My Brother's Keeper
Charles Sheffield / Mass Market Paperback / Expected June 2000
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Starfire
Charles Sheffield / Mass Market Paperback / Expected June 2000
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Recent

The Compleat McAndrew
Charles Sheffield / Mass Market Paperback / Published April 2000
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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.

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.

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.

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...

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 ...

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.

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.

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...

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 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 .

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".

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."

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.

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.

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.

Tomorrow and Tomorrow
Charles Sheffield / Paperback / Published January 1997
Price: $13.95 Special Order
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.

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.

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

Higher Education; A Jupiter Novel
Charles Sheffield, Jerry Pournelle (Contributor) / Hardcover / Published June 1996
Price: $21.95 Special Order
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.

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.

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 World of 2044 : Technological Development and the Future of Society
Charles Sheffield(Editor), et al / Hardcover / Published February 1995
Price: $29.95 Special Order
Contributed articles.

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.

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.

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.

The World of 2044 : Technological Development and the Future of Society
Charles Sheffield, et al / Paperback / Published September 1994
Price: $19.95 Special Order
Contributed articles.

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.

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.

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.

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