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Charles Sheffield


UK flag (1935 - 2002)
Husband of Nancy Kress

Charles Sheffield, a mathematician and physicist, is a past president of both the American Astronautical Society and the Science Fiction Writers of America, and the chief scientist of the Earth Satellite Corporation. He has published over a hundred technical papers and monographs on such subjects as nuclear physics, gravitational field analysis, and general relativity, and an equally large body of popular science articles for the layman. He serves as a science reviewer for several prominent publications.

In science fiction, Dr. Sheffield has received the coveted Nebula and Hugo Awards, as well as the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for his novel for Baen, Brother to Dragons. His other SF novels for Baen include The Mind Pool and its sequel, The Spheres of Heaven, Between the Strokes of Night, Convergent Series, and Transvergence. He is also the author for Baen of Borderlands of Science: How to Think Like a Scientist and Write Science Fiction, which is both a nonfiction survey of current scientific frontiers and an explanation of how a science fiction writer can write SF using bona fide scientific knowledge. Which is just the sort of SF that Dr. Sheffield has been writing for some time now, to the resounding acclaim of readers and critics alike.
 

Awards: Nebula (1994), Hugo (1994), Campbell (1993)  see all

Genres: Science Fiction, Young Adult Fantasy, Horror
 
Series
Proteus
   1. Sight of Proteus (1980)
   2. Proteus Unbound (1989)
   3. Proteus in the Underworld (1995)
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Heritage
   1. Summertide (1990)
   2. Divergence (1991)
   3. Transcendence (1992)
   4. Convergence (1997)
   6. Resurgence (2002)
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Cold As Ice
   1. Cold As Ice (1992)
   2. The Ganymede Club (1995)
   3. Dark as Day (2002)
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Chan Dalton
   1. The Mind Pool (1993)
   2. The Spheres of Heaven (2001)
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Aftermath
   1. Aftermath (1998)
   2. Starfire (1999)
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Novels
   The Web Between the Worlds (1979)
   The Selkie (1982) (with David Bischoff)
   My Brother's Keeper (1982)
   Between the Strokes of Night (1985)
     aka Between the Strokes of Midnight
   The Nimrod Hunt (1986)
   Trader's World (1988)
   Brother to Dragons (1992)
   Godspeed (1993)
   The Judas Cross (1994) (with David Bischoff)
   Tomorrow and Tomorrow (1996)
   Space Suits (2001)
   The Amazing Dr. Darwin (2002)
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Collections
   Vectors (1979)
   Hidden Variables (1981)
   Erasmus Magister (1982)
   Dancing with Myself (1993)
   The Future Quartet (1994) (with others)
   Georgia on My Mind (1995)
   Convergent Series (1998)
   The Lady Vanishes (2002)
   Towering Yarns (2017) (with others)
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Anthologies edited
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Series contributed to
Jupiter
   1. Higher Education (1996) (with Jerry Pournelle)
   2. The Billion Dollar Boy (1997)
   3. Putting up Roots (1997)
   4. The Cyborg from Earth (1998)
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Books containing stories by Charles Sheffield
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Galaxy's Edge Magazine: Issue 39 (2019)
July 2019
(Galaxy's Edge Magazine, book 39)
edited by
Mike Resnick
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Galaxy's Edge Magazine: Issue 38 (2019)
May 2019
(Galaxy's Edge Magazine, book 38)
edited by
Mike Resnick

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Awards
1994 Nebula Award for Best Novelette : Georgia on My Mind [short story]
1994 Hugo Award for Best Novelette : Georgia on My Mind [short story]
1993 John W. Campbell Memorial Award : Brother to Dragons

Award nominations
1998 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : Tomorrow and Tomorrow
1996 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : The Ganymede Club
1996 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : At the Eschaton
1996 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : Georgia on My Mind: And Other Places
1994 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : Godspeed
1991 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : Summertide
1991 Hugo Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : Godspeed [short story]
1991 Hugo Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : A Braver Thing
1990 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Destroyer of Worlds
1987 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : The Nimrod Hunt
1986 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : Between the Strokes of Night
1983 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : The Devil of Malkirk
1983 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : Erasmus Magister
1982 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : Hidden Variables
1980 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : The Web Between the Worlds
1980 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : Vectors
1979 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : Sight of Proteus
1979 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : The Treasure of Odirex


Charles Sheffield recommends
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Picoverse (2002)
Robert A Metzger
"Bob Metzger knows his science. He proves it in Picoverse, a complex and intriguing story that ranges widely through time and space."
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Acts of God (1998)
(Christ Clone, book 3)
James BeauSeigneur
". . . refreshing, well thought out, and methodically researched . . . Not since, C.S. Lewis have we seen such creativity and imagination. Bravo!"
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The Architects of Hyperspace (1987)
Thomas R McDonough
"A wild interstellar romp."

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