Charles Sheffield Books In Order

Proteus Books In Order

  1. Sight of Proteus (1980)
  2. Proteus Unbound (1989)
  3. Proteus in the Underworld (1995)

McAndrew Books In Order

  1. The McAndrew Chronicles (1983)
  2. One Man’s Universe (1989)
  3. The Compleat McAndrew (2000)

Heritage Books In Order

  1. Summertide (1990)
  2. Divergence (1991)
  3. Transcendence (1992)
  4. Convergence (1997)
  5. Resurgence (2002)

Cold As Ice Books In Order

  1. Cold As Ice (1992)
  2. The Ganymede Club (1995)
  3. Dark as Day (2002)

Chan Dalton Books In Order

  1. The Mind Pool (1993)
  2. The Spheres of Heaven (2001)

Aftermath Books In Order

  1. Aftermath (1998)
  2. Starfire (1999)

Novels

  1. The Web Between the Worlds (1979)
  2. The Selkie (1982)
  3. My Brother’s Keeper (1982)
  4. Between the Strokes of Night (1985)
  5. The Nimrod Hunt (1986)
  6. Trader’s World (1988)
  7. Brother to Dragons (1992)
  8. Godspeed (1993)
  9. The Judas Cross (1994)
  10. Tomorrow and Tomorrow (1996)
  11. Space Suits (2001)
  12. The Amazing Dr. Darwin (2002)

Omnibus

  1. Charles Sheffield SF Gateway Omnibus (2014)

Collections

  1. Vectors (1979)
  2. Hidden Variables (1981)
  3. Erasmus Magister (1982)
  4. Dancing with Myself (1993)
  5. The Future Quartet (1994)
  6. Georgia on My Mind (1995)
  7. Convergent Series (1998)
  8. The Lady Vanishes (2002)
  9. Towering Yarns (2017)

Anthologies edited

  1. How to Save the World (1995)

Non fiction

  1. Earthwatch (1981)
  2. Man on Earth (1983)
  3. Space Careers (1984)
  4. The World of 2044 (1994)
  5. Borderlands of Science (1999)

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Charles Sheffield Books Overview

The Compleat McAndrew

Presenting the space adventures of Arthur Morton McAndrew, space time expert and scientist extraordinaire, and his long suffering companion, spaceship skipper Jeanie Roker. Jeanie first met McAndrew on a routine run to Titan and quickly learned he was a genius of the caliber of Newton or Einstein. When McAndrew invented a space drive that let frail humans survive hundreds of gravities of acceleration, he disappeared while testing it, and Jeanie had to find him, using a trail of cryptic messages he had left behind. That was the beginning of a beautiful friendship, in spite of the gray hairs that Jeanie began accumulating as a result of McAndrew’s impractical nature and his talent for getting himself into trouble with much more practical villains, such as…
A mass murderer of several million people A highly placed government official whose life McAndrew saved, but in an embarrassing way, and who consequently wants to kill both him and Jeanie The ruler of a slower than light spaceship that left Earth a long time ago, giving it time to develop some very strange customs by the time McAndrew and Jeanie visited it. And there are still more adventures of this spacegoing odd couple in The Compleat McAndrew. Publisher’s Note: Part of this book was previously published as One Man’s Universe.

Summertide

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. Access to the unstable Quake was supposed to be prohibited, but some very insistent travelers were determined to make the trip. Professor Darya Lang, who had made a career studying artifacts left by the long vanished aliens called the Builders, had a hunch that during this unusal Summertide she might find the Builders themselves. Louis Nenda and the Cecropian Atvar H’sial had their own interests in Quake, and would do anything to get there. And Councilor Julius Graves was hunting murderers if they were hiding on Quake, he needed no one’s permission to search for them. Planetary Administrators Hans Rebka and Max Perry had no choice but to go to Quake themselves risking their lives to protect the others and to learn, just maybe, the secret of Summertide and the Builders…
‘A well made puzzle story in the manner of Arthur C. Clarke’s Rama books.’ The New York Times

Divergence

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. NYT.

Transcendence

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.

Convergence

The discovery of an ancient alien technology known as the Artifacts enables the human race to jump from galaxy to galaxy, but when a strange new Artifact emerges and changes all the other Artifacts, chaos ensues.

Resurgence

Hans Rebka, interstellar trouble shooter, had solved the mystery of the gigantic Artefacts built by a race that vanished millions of years ago, and at the same time had defeated the warlike Zardalu, onetime tyrannical rulers of the galaxy. But that was only a warm up for the main event. In one arm of the galaxy, something is destroying whole stellar systems. Investigating the wave of stellar destruction, Rebka and his motley crew of humans and aliens discover a battle beginning that may determine the ultimate fate of the galaxy itself. Rebka and company must act quickly. Unfortunately, they are trapped on a planet directly in the path of destruction…

Cold As Ice

Twenty five years ago there was a great interplanetary war in the Solar System. It was a suicidal spasm in which terrible weapons were created and used; in which nine billion people were killed. The rivalries that led to the war are not gone. And a few of those deadly weapons remain some still orbiting the sun in the debris of destroyed ships,s some deliberately placed in storage. Now Cyrus Mobarak, the man who perfected the fusion engine, is determined to bring human settlement to the protected seas of Europa. Opposing him is Hilda Brandt, Europa’s administrator. And caught between them are three remarkable young people: Jon Perry, Camille Hamilton, and Wilsa Sheer.

Dark as Day

The Solar System is finally recovering from the Great War a war that devastated the planets and nearly wiped out the human race and the population of the outer moons, orbiting Jupiter and Saturn, is growing. On one of those moons, Alex Ligon, scion of a great interplanetary trading family has developed a wonderfully accurate new population model, and cannot wait until the newly reconstituted ‘Seine,’ the interlinked network of computers that spans the planets and moons and asteroids, comes back on line. But when it does, and he extends his perfect model a century into the future, it predicts the complete destruction of the human race. On another moon, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence goes on, undaunted by generations of failure. And to her amazement, Millie Wu, a young genius newly recruited to the project, has found a signal…
a signal that is coming from outside the solar system. And in his new retreat on a minor moon of Saturn, the cranky genius Rustam Battacharyia is still collecting weapons from the Great War. He thinks he may have stumbled on an unexpected new one…
but he ll need to disarm it before it destroys the Sun.

The Spheres of Heaven

LOSE THE STARS OR LOSE EVERYTHING! Spacer Chan Dalton is torn between two masters. The pacifist aliens who hold Earth under Quarantine want him to find out why their starships have been disappearing in the Geyser Swirl, the Bermuda Triangle of the galaxy. Earth’s military, which has secretly discovered a way to break the quarantine, assumes that someone out there is making ships vanish, including Earth’s, and wants Dalton to find the culprits and hopefully stop them with extreme prejudice, if necessary. The trouble is, the aliens hold the taking of intelligent life, even in selfdefense, to be the greatest of sins. It was Earth’s violent ways in defense of the damned pacifist aliens! that led to the quarantine in the first place and if Dalton is forced to fight, it will unveil, and so destroy, Earth’s final chance to reach for the stars again. So when Dalton does indeed discover the hostile invaders responsible for the lost starships, he is faced with an impossible decision: Fight and lose access to space forever; or allow a rapacious enemy to run riot over all that he holds dear…

Aftermath

It’s 2026, and catastrophe has struck from an unexpected source. The Alpha Centauri supernova has risen like a second sun, rushing Earth toward its last summer. Floods, fires, starvation, and disease paralyze the planet. In a blue aurora flash of gamma rays, all microchips worldwide are destroyed, leaving an already devastated Earth without communications, transportation, weaponry, or medicine. The disaster sets three groups of survivors on separate quests. A militant cult seizes the opportunity to free their leader, known as the Eye of God, from the long term coma to which a court sentenced her. Three cancer patients also search for a man in judicial sleep: the brilliant scientist and monstrous criminal who alone can continue the experimental treatment that keeps them alive. From a far greater distance come the survivors of the first manned Mars expedition, struggling homeward to a world that has changed far beyond their darkest fears. And standing at the crossroads is one man, U.S. President Saul Steinmetz, who faces a crucial decision that will affect the fate of his own people…
and the world. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Starfire

Earth has been ravaged by galactic disaster but the real devastation is yet to come. The end draws nigh…
. The year is 2053, and Earth has barely recovered from the Alpha Centauri supernova that destroyed much of the planet’s infrastructure. Now the supernova’s residual effect a storm of high energy particles is racing toward Earth, and an international effort has been launched out of the Sky City space colony to save the planet. But the controversial plan to build a giant protective shield for Earth is falling dangerously behind schedule. A series of unexplained murders has disrupted the Sky City workforce, so much so that a brilliant but monstrous criminal has been enlisted to track down the Sky City killer. Then comes more startling news. Evidence indicates that the original supernova was caused deliberately, and that the lethal particle storm will arrive sooner than anyone expected. But who or what tried to destroy the Earth? And will the answer come in time to save it from its final apocalypse?

The Web Between the Worlds

‘WHAT SF SHOULD BE ALL ABOUT.’ KliattRob Merlin was the best engineer who had ever lived. That was why ‘The King of Space’ had to have him for the most spectacular construction project ever even though Rob was a potentially fatal threat to his power…
Thus begins a breakthrough novel by the former President of the American Astronautical Society, about an idea whose time has come: a shimmering bridge between Earth and space that mankind will climb to the stars!Sound like fantasy? The concept has been in the literature of physics for over three decades, but only a writer with the scientific background of a Sheffield or a Clarke could bring the idea to life.

My Brother’s Keeper

TIME SHARING TWINS Lionel Salkind was a rising musical star. His twin brother, Leo Foss, was a researcher in government work that he couldn’t talk about. Then the helicopter they were flying crashed. When he woke up, Lionel learned that both he and Leo had sustained fatal injuries, and he was only alive because the surgeon had used organs from Leo to repair Lionel’s slightly less damaged body. More than half of Lionel’s brain was gone, and had been replaced with Leo’s. Lionel, in fact, had become His Brother’s Keeper!

Between the Strokes of Night

After the Nuclear Spasm in the 21st century, ho*mo sapiens was extinct, save for a tiny remnant scattered in small, primitive space colonies. At first Solar Humanity had only one goal: survival. But when the battle for existence was won, humankind began moving outward in slow, multi generation space ships, and as then millennia passed, planet based civilisations emerged in many star systems. In the year 27,698 A.D, to these new worlds come the Immortals, beings with strange ties to ancient Earth, who seem to live forever, who can travel light years in days and who use their strange powers to control the existence of ordinary mortals. On the planet Pentecost, a small group sets out to find and challenge the Immortals. But in the search they themselves are changed: as Immortals, they discover a new threat, not just to themselves, but to the galaxy itself.

Godspeed

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.

Tomorrow and Tomorrow

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 Amazing Dr. Darwin

When the renowned Dr Erasmus Darwin is called upon to heal a man dying of an apparently impossible ailment, he has no idea that it is the beginning of a quest that will lead him to the darkest corners of Europe, and a stunning encounter with the most famous inhabitant of a certain Scottish loch.

Georgia on My Mind

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.

Convergent Series

Out to solve the galaxy’s most persistent mystery, Hans Rebka must penetrate the Paradox, an artifact left behind by an ancient and powerful race, unaware that his success could spell trouble for all known life.’

The Lady Vanishes

A government scientist specializing in optics and material properties has done the impossible: she literally disappeared from the top security research facility in Reston, VA; her ex boyfriend is called in to find out how she pulled it off…
and why. Year’s Best Science Fiction Pick

Borderlands of Science

WELCOME TO THE FARTHEST FRONTIERS OF KNOWLEDGE…
. Present day science, as Carl Sagan observed, is more like science fiction than most science fiction. Where does the dividing line lie today? Charles Sheffield, an internationally respected scientist and an equally renowned science fiction writer, whom The Washington Post and others have compared to Arthur C. Clarke, surveys with an expert eye the current state of physics, astronomy, chemistry, biology, computers, and other fields, and brings the reader up to date on just how strange the universe is turning out to be. When exploring strange territory, a knowledgeable guide is a necessity. Fortunately, Dr. Sheffield is eminently qualified to explain the nature of the new mysteries which science is just beginning to explore. The readers will be in good hands as they are taken on an expertly guided tour of the Borderlands of Science

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