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Charles Sheffield

Born

in Hull, Yorkshire, The United Kingdom

June 25, 1935

Died

November 02, 2002

Genre

Science Fiction & Fantasy

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Charles A. 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 remote sensing satellite data. This resulted in many technical papers and two popular non-fiction books, Earthwatch and Man on Earth, both collections of false co ...more

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Average rating: 3.7 · 13,623 ratings · 1,243 reviews · 216 distinct works • Similar authors

	Summertide (Heritage Universe, #1) 3.68 avg rating — 949 ratings — published 1990 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tomorrow and Tomorrow 3.85 avg rating — 748 ratings — published 1997 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Aftermath (Supernova Alpha, #1) 3.51 avg rating — 803 ratings — published 1998 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cold as Ice (Cold as Ice #1) 3.74 avg rating — 611 ratings — published 1992 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Divergence (Heritage Universe #2) 3.70 avg rating — 602 ratings — published 1991 — 33 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Between the Strokes of Night 3.73 avg rating — 485 ratings — published 1985 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Higher Education by Charles Sheffield, Jerry Pournelle 3.72 avg rating — 468 ratings — published 1996 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Transcendence (Heritage Universe #3) 3.75 avg rating — 411 ratings — published 1992 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Convergence (Heritage Universe #4) 3.67 avg rating — 411 ratings — published 1997 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mind Pool 3.39 avg rating — 427 ratings — published 1986 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Heritage Universe (5 books)
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Jupiter (4 books)
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Cold as Ice (3 books)
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3.78 avg rating — 1,198 ratings

Supernova Alpha (2 books)
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3.52 avg rating — 1,127 ratings

Proteus (3 books)
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“Remember, an easy question can have an easy answer. But a hard question must have a hard answer. And for the hardest questions of all, there may be no answer - except faith.”
― Charles Sheffield, Brother to Dragons

tags: faith, questions, searching

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“I'm getting old, thought Eileen Calder. Old and worn out and cynical. And being cynical is a lot worse than being old or worn out.”
― Charles Sheffield, Brother to Dragons

tags: aging, burnout, cynicism

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“Sometimes I think about dying. And then I wonder about going to hell. And then I think that if and when I go there, the place will be completely organized and run by lost souls, with a council and a works committee and an ethics panel, and I'll feel right at home.”
― Charles Sheffield

tags: death, government, hell, humour

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Starter Villain by John Scalzi (272 pg)

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Fuzzy Nation by John Scalzi (303 pg)

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Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Charles Sheffield (432 pg)

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The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport by Samit Basu (416 pg)

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