'Charles Sheffield' (
June 25,
1935 –
November 2,
2002), was an
English-born mathematician, physicist and
science fiction author. He had been a President of the
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America and of the
American Astronomical Society.
His novel ''
The Web Between the Worlds'', featuring the construction of a
space elevator, was published almost simultaneously with
Arthur C. Clarke's novel about that very same subject, ''
The Fountains of Paradise'', a coincidence that amused them both.
For some years he was the chief scientist of Earth Satellite Corporation, a company analysing satellite data. This resulted in many technical papers and two popular non-fiction books, ''
Earthwatch'' and ''
Man on Earth'', both collections of false colour and enhanced images of Earth from space.
He won the
Nebula and
Hugo awards for his novelette "
Georgia on My Mind" and the 1992
John W. Campbell Memorial Award for his novel ''
Brother to Dragons''.
Sheffield was Toastmaster at
BucConeer, the
1998 World Science Fiction Convention in
Baltimore.
He had been writing a column for the
Baen Books web site; his last column concerned the discovery of the
brain tumour that led to his death.
He was married to writer
Nancy Kress.
Bibliography (incomplete)
Novels
★ ''
The Web Between The Worlds'' (1979)
★ ''
My Brother's Keeper'' (1982, revised 1998)
★ ''
The Selkie'' (1982) (with David Bischoff)
★ ''
The McAndrew Chronicles'' (1983) - Sequel to ''The Web Between The Worlds''
★ ''
Between the Strokes of Night'' (1985)
★ ''The
Nimrod Hunt'' (1986, revised as ''The Mind Pool'', 1993)
★ ''
Trader's World'' (1988)
★ ''
Brother to Dragons'' (1992) - Won the
John W. Campbell Memorial Award
★ ''
Cold as Ice'' (1992)
★ ''
Godspeed'' (1993)
★ ''
The Judas Cross'' (1994) - With David Bischoff
★ ''
The Ganymede Club'' (1995)
★ ''
Higher Education'' (1995)
★ ''
The Billion Dollar Boy'' (1997)
★ ''
Putting Up Roots'' (1997)
★ ''
Tomorrow and Tomorrow'' (1997)
★ ''
Aftermath'' (1998)
★ ''
The Cyborg from Earth'' (1998)
★ ''
Starfire'' (1999)
★ ''
The Spheres of Heaven'' (2001)
★ ''
Dark as Day'' (2002)
The Proteus Universe
★ ''
Sight of Proteus'' (1978)
★ ''
Proteus Unbound'' (1989)
★ ''
Proteus in the Underworld'' (1995)
The
Heritage Universe
★ ''
Summertide'' (1990) (Book One)
★ ''
Divergence'' (1991) (Book Two)
★ ''
Transcendence'' (1992) (Book Three)
★ ''
Convergence'' (1997) (Book Four)
★ ''
Resurgence'' (2002) (Book Five)
Non-Fiction
★ ''
The Borderlands of Science'' (1999)
Collections
★ ''
Vectors'' (1979)
★ ''
Hidden Variables (collection'' (1981)
★ ''
Georgia On My Mind and Other Places'' (1995)
★ ''
The Compleat McAndrew'' (2001)
Short stories
★ "
Humanity Test" (1989)
★ "
The Double-Spiral Staircase" (1990?)
★ "
A Braver Thing" (1990)
★ "
Georgia on My Mind" (1993) (
Hugo,
Nebula)
★ "
Dies Irae" (1985)
See also
★
List of notable brain tumor patients
External links
★
Charles Sheffield Yahoogroup