My Brother's Keeper
 a younger effort but a great read!: i read this one by accident, years ago, when i thought it looked interesting in the bookstore and i had never heard of the author before. since then i think i have reread it a dozen times. a little choppy in the [... more]
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Dark as Day
From Amazon.com: The Great War is over and humans have spread across the solar system, but mathematician Alex Ligon's complex computer model has just predicted that humanity is inexplicably doomed within a century. At the same time, scientist Milly Wu [... more]
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The Spheres of Heaven
Spheres fo Heaven: I first ordered Spheres of Heaven, not knowing it was a sequel, and subsequently ordered the first book, The Mind Pool. I was glad I did and was pleasantly re-introduced to science fiction after a long time away from this genre. The [... more]
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The Borderlands Of Science
Pretty Darn Good...: God, I hate most of what passes for science fiction these days! As a fan of hard science fiction, I find most of the "stuff" published to be unscientific eyewash. Which is why I like most of Sheffield's work. An excellent [... more]
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The Compleat McAndrew
great collection of "hard" SF stories: I was glad to see that all of the McAndrew stories are available in a single volume. If you like hard science fiction, well, these stories definitely put the "science" in science fiction. [... more]
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Resurgence
Entertaining, But That's As Far As It Goes: This was a mildly entertaining book. Sheffield places the action at an indeterminate time in the future at the interstellar level, with travel between our Orion arm of the Milky Way galaxy and the neighboring [... more]
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The Billion Dollar Boy
Solid if unspectacular: Shelby Cheever is the kind of kid that everyone, at one point or another, has run into and wished they hadn't. Adapted from a story by Rudyard Kipling and now reprinted for a juvenile crowd by Starscape Books, "Billion-Dollar [... more]
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Starfire
From Amazon.com: The sky is falling--again. Following up on 1998's excellent Aftermath, Starfire subjects planet Earth to yet another cosmic blast from the Alpha Centauri supernova. But while the blast that hit Earth in Aftermath simply cooked the [... more]
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The Cyborg From Earth
My Only Regret: My only regret was purchasing this book without knowing it was obviously written as a series but obviously cancelled since it is now six years since The Cyborg From Earth was initially written. Seeing as how it is now 2004 I really don't [... more]
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The Web Between The Worlds
find this one!: merlin is an engineer of the future- he builds in space. the book is about the expense and limits of transporting goods and persons between earth's surface and space, and merlin's collaboration with a space ore miner to build a ' skyhook' [... more]
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Cold As Ice
This Author Will Be Missed: For years Charles Sheffield has been one of my favorite science fiction authors--right up there with current "wouldn't miss" authors like Greg Bear, Orson Scott Card, Ursula LeGuin, Robert Sawyer and Gene Wolfe--and [... more]
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Higher Education
Good sci-fi for young adults: This book is written in the best tradition of Robert Heinlein. It is a well written story of a young man thrown from the dubious comfort of a failing public school system into the opportunities and dangers of young adulthood. [... more]
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