Why I thought I needed to buy armloads of paperbacks at that time, the present me doesn't quite grasp. I bought this back in my immediate post-undergraduate days when I frequented used paperback book stores. He had been writing a column for the Baen Books web site his last column concerned the discovery of the brain tumour that led to his death.Ī hard book to categorize. Sheffield was Toastmaster at BucConeer, the 1998 World Science Fiction Convention in Baltimore. Campbell Memorial Award for his novel Brother to Dragons. He won the Nebula and Hugo awards for his novelette "Georgia on My Mind" and the 1992 John W. This resulted in many technical papers and two popular non-fiction books, Earthwatch and Man on Earth, both collections of false colour and enhanced images of Earth from space. Clarke's novel about that very same subject, The Fountains of Paradise, a coincidence that amused them both.įor some years he was the chief scientist of Earth Satellite Corporation, a company analysing remote sensing satellite data. His novel The Web Between the Worlds, featuring the construction of a space elevator, was published almost simultaneously with Arthur C.
He had been a President of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America and of the American Astronomical Society. Sheffield (J– November 2, 2002), was an English-born mathematician, physicist and science fiction author.
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