Charles Sheffield

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  • Bibliography:
    45 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    August 1979
  • Latest Book:
    September 2014
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Full Series List in Order

Cold As Ice

1 - Cold As Ice (Jun-1992)
3 - Dark As Day (Mar-2002)

Cold As Ice

2 - The Ganymede Club (1995)

Heritage Universe

1 - Summertide (Feb-1990)
2 - Divergence (1991)
3 - Transvergence (Nov-1999)
4 - Convergence (Mar-1997)
Resurgence (Nov-2002)

Multi-Author Series List

A Jupiter Novel

2 - The Billion Dollar Boy (Mar-1997)
3 - Putting Up Roots (Aug-1997)
4 - The Cyborg from Earth (Mar-1998)

Book List in Order: 45 titles

  • The Web Between the Worlds

    Rob Merlyn was the best engineer who had ever lived. That was why Darius Regulo, "The King of Space," had to have Rob for the most spectacular construction project in the history of the human race--even though Rob was a potentially fatal threat to Da...

  • Hidden Variables

    1982 Locus Poll Award, Best Single Author Collection (Place: 15). Collects 14 stories with introduction and afterwords by the author, including: The Man Who Stole the Moon, The Deimos Plague, Forefather Figure, Moment of Inertia (McAndrew series), Th...

  • My Brother's Keeper

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    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 h...

  • Erasmus Magister

  • The Selkie

    A young American couple having marriage difficulties come to the coast of northern Scotland to work on the development of nuclear power in the area and discover the Selkies, a horrifying race of mutants living in nearby sea caves...

  • The Nimrod Hunt

    THE NIROD HUNT IS .. . *One of the most stunningly original novels of 1986 *High adventure for high IQs *So far out that only a master of science fiction could have written it *So technically correct that only a master of science could have writte...

  • The Treasure of Odirex

    in Neanderthals: Isaac Asimov's Wonderful Worlds of Science Fiction #6

  • The McAndrews Chronicles

  • Sight of Proteus

    a thrilling novel of pursuit and unveiling in a world where the forms of humanity are practically boundless -- until one man breaks an unbreakable law; until an alien force looses itself upon the world -- and a planet that exploded sixteen million ye...



  • Trader's World

  • Proteus Unbound

    Behrooz Wolf lost his job with the Bureau of Form Control when his great love Mary left him. The solar system''s expert on form control sat hooked to a dream machine to escape his lonely and hallucination-filled reality. Then the form control mach...

  • Summertide

    Heritage Universe - 1

    SUMMERTIDE BLUES 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, du...

  • Divergence

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    Heritage Universe - 2

    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. Reprint. NYT....

  • Transcendence

  • Cold As Ice

    Cold As Ice - 1

    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 f...

  • Brother to Dragons

    THE POWER OF ONE... Job. Against all evidence he never lost faith in his fellow man. Job. Born on the bottom rung in an age that made ours seem Golden, his life went rapidly downhill from there. Job. Cast adrift into a world he never made, b...

  • One Man's Universe: The Continuing Chronicles of Arthur Mort

  • The Mind Pool

    Calling all humans... In the 23rd century, out of all the races of the galaxy, only humanity has discovered the secret of travel between the stars-not so much because we're so smart, but because we are incredibly gadget-oriented. We are also, comp...

  • Dancing With Myself

    “One of the most imaginative, exciting talents to appear on the SF scene in recent years.” -- Publishers Weekly“A master of hard science fiction.” -- NoumenonThis collection contains sixteen stories and science articles by the remarkable auth...



  • Godspeed

    One day the Godspeed ships stopped coming. Cut off suddenly, unexpectedly, from interstellar trade, the colony world of Erin found itself confined to the slow in-system shuttles and asteroid miners that were the only spaceships left at Muldoon Por...

  • One Man's Universe

    Collects all of the author's stories starring top physicist Arthur Morton McAndrew, including two new novellas and an updated commentary on the discoveries in physics that inspired the fiction. Original....

  • Proteus Combined

  • Judas Cross

    Guarding an ancient cross that is believed to hold the soul of the disciple Judas Iscariot, Marquis Louis Villette, a knight of an ancient secret order, witnesses the devastating effects of world war on his French homeland and his loved ones. Origina...

  • Between the Strokes of Night

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    TO DEFEAT THE IMMORTALS, YOU MUST BECOME AN IMMORTAL After the Nuclear Spasm in the 21st century, homo sapiens was extinct, save for a tiny remnant scattered in small, primitive space colonies. At first Solar Humanity had only one goal: survival. ...

  • The Ganymede Club

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    Cold As Ice - 2

    In the years following the Great War and the death of half the human race, Lola Belman, a therapist on Ganymede, meets a patient whose past is a mystery, and a dangerous group will stop at nothing to keep Lola from exploring the past and discovering ...

  • How to Save the World

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    Outrageous times call for outrageous measures. From the terraforming of Titan to viruses that alter wrongdoers' DNA, from legalized electronic dueling to contraceptives that select for sex, here is a fistful of provocative, engaging, and above all en...

  • Georgia on My Mind and Other Places

    Georgia on My Mind and Other Places is a brilliant collection of visionary short fiction by Charles Sheffield, author of The Ganymede Club and Godspeed. It includes the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning title story, as well as other widely praised works....

  • Proteus in the Underworld

    In the 22nd century, biofeedback techniques have enabled humans the ultimate expression—the ability to transform the body into any viable form. What began as an innocent technique to reduce anxiety without drugs has raised fundamental questi...

  • Tomorrow and Tomorrow

    THROUGH THE EYE OF TIME Drake Merlin's wife, the love of his life, is dying of a rare, fatal disease for which there is no cure. Not now, in the 21st century. But surely in the future... For Drake there is only one solution: have Ana's body frozen...



  • The Billion Dollar Boy

    A Jupiter Novel - 2

    Spoiled and hopelessly, bored, Shelby Crawford Jerome Prescott Cheever V is one of the richest young men of the twenty-second century. His life on Earth has been spent in idle luxury, and it is only a childish whim that makes him decide one day to ta...

  • Convergence

    Heritage Universe - 4

    In the beginning, humans traveled to the stars at a slow sublight crawl. Then they found the Bose Network, which allowed ships to jump instantaneously from one node in the galactic arm to another. Once in the network, they found the Artifacts, enigma...

  • Putting Up Roots

    A Jupiter Novel - 3

    When Josh and his autistic cousin Dawn are sent to the planet Solferino, they join a group of kids already working for an interplanetary conglomerate stationed there. Assured by the bosses that no intelligent life exists on Solferino, Josh and Dawn c...

  • The Cyborg from Earth

    A Jupiter Novel - 4

    Heir to a powerful military dynasty, Jeff Kopal has never lived up to his family's expectations. When he blows his naval entrance exams, he assumes his future is over. But if he's such a screwup, why is he being sent by the navy into deep space to de...

  • Aftermath

    “Sheffield clothes the most advanced speculations of modern science in alluring forms of beauty and danger.” -- The Washington Post Book World

    It's 2026, and catastrophe has struck from an unexpected source. The Alpha Centauri supernova ha...

  • Starfire

    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...

  • Transvergence

    Heritage Universe - 3

    FROM OUT OF THE DEPTHS OF TIME ... The Zardalu were the greatest menace in the galaxy, enslaving many races, exterminating others. It was fortunate that they had become extinct aeons before humans ventured into space. But wait! This just in! Hans...

  • The Compleat McAndrew

    THE BRAIN OF AN EINSTEIN -- THE MIND OF AN ENGINEER 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 McAn...

  • 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 t...

  • Space Suits

    Lawyers in Space Well yes It s a terrifying thought But there are lawyers and lawyers And then there are Henry Carver and Waldo P Burmeister Sometimes it s not clear if their greatest skill lies in getting their clients out of trouble or in getting t...



  • Dark As Day

    Cold As Ice - 3

    Set in the universe as Sheffield's previous novel Cold As Ice, Dark As Day is a hard science fiction novel set 30 years after the Great War, and interplanetary war that nearly destroyed the entire human race, and left horrifyingly dangerous weapons c...

  • The Lady Vanishes and Other Oddities of Nature

    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 wh...

  • The Amazing Dr. Darwin

    NOT THAT DARWIN--HIS GRANDFATHER! 18th Century Europe: It is an age when superstition is beginning to give way to the force of human reason, and no man so fully embodies the spirit of the times as Dr. Erasmus Darwin. Thinker, healer, and explorer...

  • Resurgence

    Heritage Universe

    THE GALAXY'S IN DANGER--SEND FOR HANS REBKA Hans Rebka, interstellar troubleshooter, thought he had done it all by now--not only solving the mystery of the gigantic Artifacts which a vanished race called the Builders had left behind millions of ...

  • Puttinig Up Roots

    Scheming to get rid of obstacles, Josh Kerrigan?s step-aunt ships him and her autistic step-daughter to Solferino to work for Foodlines. Josh and Dawn join a small training group that is ostensibly doing scientific research and exploration under the ...

  • The Borderlands of Science

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Award-Winning Books by Charles Sheffield

Brother to Dragons
1993 John W. Campbell Memorial Award -- Novel


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Charles Sheffield has published 45 books.

Charles Sheffield does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Puttinig Up Roots, was published in September 2014.

The first book by Charles Sheffield, The Web Between the Worlds, was published in August 1979.

Yes. Charles Sheffield has 3 series.
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