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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.

In 1998 Charles married fellow SF writer Nancy Kress. He died in 2002 of brain cancer.

This author has been recommended by 52 other readers.

Books (Sort by Title)[18 books listed]
 Misc VolumeYearRating
 TRADER'S WORLDn/an/a9/10
 Cold As Icen/a1993n/a
 Putting Up Rootsn/a19979/10
 Convergencen/a1998n/a
 Dark As Dayn/a20027/10
 The Mind Pool/n/a2002n/a

 Proteus VolumeYearRating
 Proteus Unboundn/an/a7/10

 The Heritage Universe Series VolumeYearRating
 Proteus in the Underworldn/a1995n/a
 Convergent Seriesn/a19985/10
 Borderlands of Sciencen/a1999n/a
 Transvergencen/a19994/10
 My Brother's Keepern/a2000n/a
 The Compleat McAndrewn/a20008/10
 The Spheres of Heavenn/a20017/10
 The Web Between the Worldsn/a2001n/a
 Between the Strokes of Nightn/a2002n/a
 Resurgencen/a2002n/a
 The Amazing Dr. Darwinn/a20029/10
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