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Space Suits |
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Charles Sheffield | |
Lawyers in Space! Not the best lawyers, or even the most honest -- but, it seems likely, the most accident-prone. From Venus to Hyperion, from good food made from bad things to an alibi made up of nothing at all, Burmeister and Carver are on the case -- so keep your head down. | |
ISBN/order number: 0-9709711-0-9, 186 pages, $13.50 | |
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Dancing With Myself * |
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Charles Sheffield | |
A dazzling collection of fact articles and fiction, with stories and essays about nanotechnology, the nature of time, the future of space flight, chaos theory, and much more. Stories: "Out of Copyright", "Tunicate, Tunicate, Wilt Thou Be Mine", "A Braver Thing", "The Grand Tour", "Nightmares of the Classical Mind", "The Double Spiral Staircase", "The Seventeen-Year Locusts", "The Courts of Xanadu", "C-Change", "Godspeed", "Dancing with Myself" Articles: "Counting Up", "Classical Nightmares... ...and Quantum Paradoxes", "The Unlicked Bear-Whelp: A Worm's Eye Look at Chaos Theory", "Unclear Winter: A Misellany of Disasters", "Something for Nothing: A Biography of the Universe" | |
ISBN/order number: as-0014, pages, $4.99 | |
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Godspeed * |
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Charles Sheffield | |
The Godspeed Drive. It is the faster than-than-light spaceship drive that made human colonization of the galaxy possible. But it was not invented by humans - it was found in the wreck of an alien ship that drifted into the solar system. No understood everything about how it worked, but it linked a hundred star systems together, and made even marginal planets like Erin in the Maveen system habitable. But one day the Godspeed ships stopped coming. Erin and the Forty Worlds around Maveen were cut off from Interstellar commerce, confined to the slow insystem shuttles that were the only spaceships that were left at Muldoon Port. Jay Hara grew up on isolated Erin, longing for the legendary days when Godspeed ships spanned the galaxy, and a young man's dreams could take him to the stars. So when an old, sick spacer named Paddy Enderton showed Jay some very strange devices and told him that he had found a Godspeed base out in the asteroid belt, Jay was eager to believe, despite the doubts of his uncle Duncan and his friend, Dr. Eileen Xavier. But when Jay's farm was raided, his animals killed and his mother beaten, by men searching for Enderton, he became convinced that there was some truth in Enderton's ravings. They won financing from the university, and have chartered a ship to take them out to the asteroid belt, in search of a small moving rock marked as Paddys Fortune in Enderton's navigation device. But the ship is not what they think it is. And the crew and captain have a very different, and deadly, agenda once they find the Godspeed base. | |
ISBN/order number: as-0017, pages, $21.95 | |
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Brother To Dragons * |
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Charles Sheffield | |
Job Napoleon Salk is born sickly and penniless in a charity hospital, on the last day of the 20th century. It is a time of global economic collapse. He grows up in an orphanage, and then as a street child, in a society where everyone is poor except for a small group of rich elite. He is terrified as a child by stories of the Tandyman, a mysterious figure with burning hands. While still a teenager he has his one and only love affair, with Stella, one of the elite, who are off-limits to the likes of Job. For this sin he is exiled to the Great Nebraska Tandy, along with the scientists and technologists who have been made the scapegoat for all the world's ills. But the scientists have not stopped working, and the Tandies themselves are not what they appear to be. Job escapes at last, and carries with him a discovery that will change the world. (This book won the John W. Campbell Award for best science-fiction novel of 1992). | |
ISBN/order number: as-0018, pages, $4.99 | |
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The Judas Cross * |
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Charles Sheffield and David Bischoff | |
Marquis Louis Villette is Guardian of the Cross that hold the captive soul of the disciple Judas. Its occult power can change history, or unleash hellish poewr and destruction. World War ravages Europe, and battles rage within earshot of Villette's Chateau. If Villette does not act, France will fall. But the Cross demands betrayal and the slaughter of innocents, and the souls of everyone has sworn to protect -- or love." | |
ISBN/order number: as-0019, pages, $5.5 | |
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