Charles Sheffield: RIP
Just got the word that Science Fiction author Charles Sheffield has lost his fight with brain cancer. He was a great person that I enjoyed dealing with in my days in SFWA, and a heck of a writer. he wrote both fiction (the most recent book of his I’ve read is The Spheres of Heaven, a good example of his style of fiction. It’s hard-SF involving alternate universes, but with good characterization and a quick, flowing plot — Sheffield was an author for which the science in his fiction was a tool, not a purpose. I also recommend his works The Mind Pool, Brother to Dragons and Aftermath.
It’s been a terrible year in the science fiction world. We’ve lost another great person today. My sympathies go out to his wife Nancy Kress and his family.
Dammit.
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