| Borderlands of Science: How to Think Like a Scientist and Write Science Fiction
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WELCOME TO THE FARTHEST FRONTIERS OF KNOWLEDGE....
Present-day science, as Carl Sagan observed, is more like science fiction than most science fiction. Where does the dividing line lie today?
Charles Sheffield, an internationally respected scientist and an equally renowned science fiction writer, whom The Washington Post and others have compared to Arthur C. Clarke, surveys with an expert eye the current state of physics, astronomy, chemistry, biology, computers, and other fields, and brings the reader up to date on just how strange the universe is turning out to be.
When exploring strange territory, a knowledgeable guide is a necessity. Fortunately, Dr. Sheffield is eminently qualified to explain the nature of the new mysteries which science is just beginning to explore. The readers will be in good hands as they are taken on an expertly guided tour of the
BORDERLANDS OF SCIENCE
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| Proteus in the Underworld
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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 questions about what it is to be human. Enter the Humanity Test.
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| Proteus Manifest (Includes Sight of Proteus & Proteus Unbound)
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Omnibus of two novels originally published separately in paperback: Sight of Proteus (1979 Locus Poll Award, Best SF Novel (Place: 14)), and Proteus Unbound. This is the only hardcover edition of these two novels, combined or separately. Another novel was added to the series in 1995, Proteus in the Underworld. Sight of Proteus was originally published as three separate stories: Sight of Proteus, Legacy, and The Grooves of Change.
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| Lady Vanishes and Other Oddities of Nature (Five Star Speculatvie Fiction)
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Author: Charles Sheffield
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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 why. Year's Best Science Fiction Pick
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| Godspeed
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A young man grows up on a distant colonial planet that has been stranded for two hundred years, since the mysterious alien Godspeed Drive technology suddenly self-destructed. By the author of Cold as Ice.
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| The Billion Dollar Boy (Jupiter)
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One of the richest young men of twenty-second-century Earth, Shelby Crawford Jerome Prescott Cheever V finds himself stranded on a mining ship twenty-seven light years from Earth, where he must learn to survive without all his vast wealth.
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| Convergent Series
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Hans Rebka had been everywhere and done everything. Now he was going to try to solve the galaxy's most persistent mystery - he was going to penetrate Paradox.
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| The Compleat McAndrew
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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 McAndrew on a routine run to Titan and quickly learned he was a genius of the caliber of Newton or Einstein. When McAndrew invented a space drive that let frail humans survive hundreds of gravities of acceleration, he disappeared while testing it, and Jeanie had to find him, using a trail of cryptic messages he had left behind. That was the beginning of a beautiful friendship, in spite of the gray hairs that Jeanie began accumulating as a result of McAndrew's impractical nature and his talent for getting himself into trouble with much more practical villains, such as... - A mass-murderer of several million people
- A highly-placed government official whose life McAndrew saved, but in an embarrassing way, and who consequently wants to kill both him and Jeanie
- The ruler of a slower-than-light spaceship that left Earth a long time ago, giving it time to develop some very strange customs by the time McAndrew and Jeanie visited it.
And there are still more adventures of this spacegoing odd couple in The Compleat McAndrew. Publisher's Note: Part of this book was previously published as One Man's Universe.
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| One Man's Universe: The Continuing Chronicles of Arthur Morton McAndrew (Tor Science Fiction)
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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.
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| The Mind Pool
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In the 23rd century, humanity is considered one of the lesser galactic breeds -- until a threat to all life in the galaxy arises, and suddenly human valor and stubbornness come in very handy.
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