Charles Sheffield, Author Tor Books $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-86407-1
The Messina Dust Cloud is home to a flourishing human population seeking independence from Earth and rumored to be illegally experimenting with nanotechnology to create warrior cyborgs. The misfit heir to a transportation empire, Jefferson Kopal, is
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Charles Sheffield, Author Spectra Books $13.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-553-37894-8
High-tech hard SF and murder mystery converge in Sheffield's (Aftermath) latest, multi-voiced narrative, but the result does credit to neither genre. After escaping from the ""judicial sleep"" in which he was to have spent six centuries atoning for...
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Charles Sheffield, Author Tor Books $23.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-85662-5
Sheffield returns to the future of Cold as Ice, here using the aftermath of the solar system-wide Great War of 2067 as backdrop for a science-fiction mystery. Lola Belman is a haldane: she uses a mixture of computer technology and drugs to treat...
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Charles Sheffield, Author Tor Books $21.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-85663-2
Physicist Sheffield's (Godspeed) sixth collection of short stories, written in the late 1980s and early '90s, affirms his place as a central exponent of hard SF. ``Georgia on My Mind,'' which won a Nebula Award, features a narrator who displays less
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Charles Sheffield, Author Tor Books $21.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-85317-4
Sheffield, known for both rigorous hard science fiction ( Cold as Ice ) and pulpy space opera ( Transcendence ) combines the two in this space adventure with a background of speculative science and the plot and characters of a Flash Gordon serial....
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Charles Sheffield, Author Spectra Books $13.95 (464p) ISBN 978-0-553-37893-1
Ho-hum: it's another global disaster. This time, a supernova has caused disastrous climatic effects and, if that's not enough, it has also sent out a massive electromagnetic pulse that has disabled all electrical devices worldwide. Sheffield centers
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Charles Sheffield, Author Tor Books $21.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-312-86241-1
Sheffield's second solo Jupiter novel (the series was launched with Higher Education, coauthored with Jerry Pournelle) uses the same future as his first, Billion Dollar Boy. Abandoned by his mother, then by his uncle, Josh Kerrigan and his autistic...
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Charles Sheffield, Author Tor Books $22.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-312-86204-6
For the second novel (after Higher Education) of the Jupiter series (which the publisher modestly states is aimed at reviving ""all the virtues of classic science fiction""), Sheffield departs from Jerry Pournelle to go his usual solo (The Ganymede...
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Charles Sheffield, Author . Tor $27.95 (479p) ISBN 978-0-312-87634-0
Fans of tangled plots, detailed settings and taut adventure will have a great time with Nebula Award–winner Sheffield's follow-up to Cold as Ice
(1992). Earth and settlements on our moon and on Mars languish following the Great War,...
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Charles Sheffield, Author Del Rey Books $18 (275p) ISBN 978-0-345-36981-9
Sheffield's ``The Heritage Universe,'' which also includes Summertide and Divergence , reads as one continuous narrative, with each book ending at a good place to take a pause in the overall story. By this third volume, the group of humans and...
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Charles Sheffield, Author Del Rey Books $16.95 (281p) ISBN 978-0-345-36039-7
This second book of the Heritage Universe series drops into the low end of space opera. Darya Lang is the galaxy's authority on Builder artifacts, devices made between three and 10 million years ago by a vanished race. Her research has led Darya,...
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Charles Sheffield, Author Del Rey Books $16.95 (257p) ISBN 978-0-345-36038-0
This promising first installment of the projected Heritage Universe series stands on its own, even though many threads are left dangling. In A.D. 6219, mankind has spread across the galaxy, discovering two other star-traveling races and 1236...
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Charles Sheffield, Author Spectra Books $19 (428p) ISBN 978-0-553-37808-5
Sheffield, who won the 1993 Nebula and 1994 Hugo awards for his novelette, Georgia on My Mind, fleshes out another piece of short fiction, At the Eschaton, to create this story of love's triumph over illness and mortality. The talented 21st-century...
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Charles Sheffield, Author . Baen $24 (384p) ISBN 978-0-7434-3567-3
The third book in Sheffield's Heritage Universe series (Convergent Series; Transvergence) further explores the magnificent artifacts and philosophy of the omnipotent Builders, but too many stock characters are introduced only to be killed off or
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Charles Sheffield, Author . Baen $24 (336p) ISBN 978-0-7434-3529-1
A pockmarked face, a decided paunch and two missing front teeth notwithstanding, renowned physician Erasmus Darwin was, as Nebula Award winner Sheffield illustrates here, not only arguably the greatest 18th-century Englishman but a 24-carat charmer.
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Charles Sheffield, Author . Five Star $24.95 (296p) ISBN 978-0-7862-4169-9
Hugo Award winner Sheffield's gift for merging hard SF with compelling characters shows brightly in most of these 11 previously uncollected stories. In the poignant title tale, a physicist tries to help find a missing fellow scientist who seems...
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Charles Sheffield, Author, Jerry Pournelle, With Tor Books $21.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-86174-2
Two SF powerhouses collaborate on an exuberant kickoff to the publisher's Jupiter series, which is dedicated to novels patterned after Robert A. Heinlein's classic inspirational tales for young adults and adults. In the 21st century, American public
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Charles Sheffield, Author, David Bischoff, With Warner Books $5.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-446-60102-3
In an attempt to meld religion and history a la Indiana Jones, Sheffield and Bischoff (The Selke) have created a legendary Cross of Judas that is supposed to bring great amoral power to its guardian. Passed from generation to generation of the...
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