Author: Charles Sheffield
Publisher: Bae
Keywords: series, convergent
Number of Pages: 576
Published: 1998-09-01
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0671877917
ISBN-13: 9780671877910

Out to solve the galaxy’s most persistent mystery, Hans Rebka must penetrate the Paradox, an artifact left behind by an ancient and powerful race, unaware that his success could spell trouble for all known life. Original."

Author: Charles Sheffield
Publisher: Starscape
Keywords: earth, cyborg
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2003-11-17
List price: $5.99
ISBN-10: 0765346249
ISBN-13: 9780765346247

Called "the new Arthur C. Clarke" by The Washington Post Book World and "a scientist with a fine literary sense" by The Denver Post, Charles Sheffield has crafted a an exciting adventure about a frustrated teen who just can’t seem to do anything right.Jeff Kopal is heir to a powerful military family. He’s got everything going for him. Except one thing: Jeff is a total screw-ups. His family has had it. So when Jeff blows off his naval entrance exams he figures his future is basically kaput. Instead, he is being sent by the navy into deep space to deal with rebellious cyborgs. How di

Author: Charles Sheffield
Publisher: Baen
Keywords: universe, heritage, resurgence
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2004-03-30
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0743488199
ISBN-13: 9780743488198

Hans Rebka, interstellar trouble-shooter, had solved the mystery of the gigantic Artefacts built by a race that vanished millions of years ago, and at the same time had defeated the warlike Zardalu, onetime tyrannical rulers of the galaxy. But that was only a warm-up for the main event. In one arm of the galaxy, something is destroying whole stellar systems. Investigating the wave of stellar destruction, Rebka and his motley crew of humans and aliens discover a battle beginning that may determine the ultimate fate of the galaxy itself. Rebka and company must act quickly. Unfortunately, they ar

Author: Charles Sheffield
Publisher: Spectra
Keywords: aftermath
Number of Pages: 560
Published: 1999-08-03
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0553577387
ISBN-13: 9780553577389

It’s 2026, and catastrophe has struck from an unexpected source. The Alpha Centauri supernova has risen like a second sun, rushing Earth toward its last summer. Floods, fires, starvation, and disease paralyze the planet. In a blue aurora flash of gamma rays, all microchips worldwide are destroyed, leaving an already devastated Earth without communications, transportation, weaponry, or medicine.The disaster sets three groups of survivors on separate quests. A militant cult seizes the opportunity to free their leader, known as the Eye of God, from the long-term coma to which a court senten

Author: Charles Sheffield
Publisher: Baen
Keywords: heaven, spheres
Number of Pages: 544
Published: 2002-01-01
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 067131856X
ISBN-13: 9780671318567

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 the galaxy. Earth’s military, which has secretly discovered a way to break the quarantine, assumes that someone out there is making ships vanish, including Earth’s, and wants Dalton to find the culprits and hopefully stop them -- with extreme prejudice, if necessary. The trouble is, the aliens hold the taking of intelligent life, even in

Author: Charles Sheffield
Publisher: Tor Books
Keywords: book, ice, cold, day
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2002-03-06
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0312876343
ISBN-13: 9780312876340

The Solar System is finally recovering from the Great War - a war that devastated the planets and nearly wiped out the human race - and the population of the outer moons, orbiting Jupiter and Saturn, is growing. On one of those moons, Alex Ligon, scion of a great interplanetary trading family has developed a wonderfully accurate new population model, and cannot wait until the newly reconstituted "Seine," the interlinked network of computers that spans the planets and moons and asteroids, comes back on line. But when it does, and he extends his perfect model a century into the future, it predic

Author: Charles Sheffield
Publisher: Tor Science Fiction
Keywords: ice, cold, day
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2003-04-14
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0812580311
ISBN-13: 9780812580310

The Solar System is finally recovering from the Great War – a war that devastated the planets and nearly wiped out the human race – and the population of the outer moons, orbiting Jupiter and Saturn, is growing. On one of those moons, Alex Ligon, scion of a great interplanetary trading family has developed a wonderfully accurate new population model, and cannot wait until the newly reconstituted "Seine," the interlinked network of computers that spans the planets and moons and asteroids, comes back on line. But when it does, and he extends his perfect model a century into the future, it pr