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A Braver Thing [MultiFormat]
by Charles Sheffield
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On the eve of the Nobel Prize ceremonies, physicist Giles Turnbull sketches notes for his acceptance speech while re-examining the tragic demise of an old friend and colleague; tomorrow he plans to tell the whole story behind the Turnbull Concession Theory. 1990 Hugo Award Nominee
Words: 12505 - Reading Time: 35-50 min.
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The Peacock Throne [MultiFormat]
by Charles Sheffield
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Iran has lost interest in nuclear reactor technology, and the US government suspects they may have discovered cold fusion. Science-writer Christopher Dutton spent enough time there during the reign of the Shah to learn Farsi and make friends, and is the ideal candidate to go to Teheran and discover the truth. 1996
Words: 12953 - Reading Time: 37-51 min.
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The Lady Vanishes [MultiFormat]
by 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. 1996 Year's Best Science Fiction Selection
Words: 5848 - Reading Time: 16-23 min.
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Georgia On My Mind [MultiFormat]
by Charles Sheffield
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Two old mathematician friends are presented with a 140-year-old mystery when three chests found beneath a farmhouse in New Zealand contain journals and equipment associated with the first computer ... the infamous Analytical Engine of Charles Babbage. 1993 Nebula Award(R) Winner, Hugo Award Winner
Words: 16893 - Reading Time: 48-67 min.
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Dark as Day [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Charles Sheffield
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In this sequel to his novel Cold as Ice, Charles Sheffield returns to the human-settled solar system in the years after the Great War that nearly wiped out the human race. The Earth is recovering--at least in the southern hemisphere. Mars has a small population, and the asteroids and moons of Jupiter and Saturn are thriving centers of trade and research. On one of those moons, Alex Ligon, scion of a great interstellar trading family, has turned his back on the family business in favor of mathema... more info>> 2002
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Godspeed [MultiFormat]
by Charles Sheffield
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Two members of the Science Foundation are forced to test their faster-than-light spaceship in secrecy, but the successful twenty-minute journey to Mars and back captures the attention of an alien race who arrive to deliver a cryptic message. 1990 Hugo Award Nominee
Words: 7238 - Reading Time: 20-28 min.
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Destroyer of Worlds [MultiFormat]
by Charles Sheffield
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A biologist who specializes in self-sustaining ecospheres has disappeared, and the private investigator hired to find him discovers a secret society conducting dangerous experiments in the Colorado Rockies. 1989
Words: 19186 - Reading Time: 54-76 min.
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Nightmares of the Classical Mind [MultiFormat]
by Charles Sheffield
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It has been six years since the demise of Thomas Madison and his Glory of God church. His monolithic legacy, an 8-mile-high cross circling the earth in low orbit, has been approved by the government to be used for an experiment in quantum physics. 1989
Words: 7733 - Reading Time: 22-30 min.
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The Courts of Xanadu [MultiFormat]
by Charles Sheffield
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A treasure-hunting survivalist joins an expedition to find Atlantis in a Chinese desert ... and discovers that the ocean is not the only place to hide a civilization. 1988
Words: 14121 - Reading Time: 40-56 min.
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Out of Copyright [MultiFormat]
by Charles Sheffield
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Four groups of experts are competing for a lucrative contract to transform Jupiter's moon Europa into a planet capable of supporting life; each tries to gain an advantage by purchasing, and sometimes trading, the cloning rights to the scientific masters of history. 1989 Year's Best Science Fiction Selection
Words: 7268 - Reading Time: 20-29 min.
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The Treasure of Odirex [MultiFormat]
by Charles Sheffield
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18th century physician Erasmus Darwin, grandfather to Charles, travels to the small town of Milburn in the north of England to determine the sanity of a woman who claims to see the ghostly Fiends of Cross Fell ... and discovers a hidden chapter of English history. 1978 Year's Finest Fantasy Pick
Words: 19766 - Reading Time: 56-79 min.
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Phallicide [MultiFormat]
by Charles Sheffield
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Rachel Stafford's brilliance in the field of human biochemistry is exploited when a pharmaceutical company makes a mutually profitable business arrangement with the cult that controls her, but Rachel plans to use her knowledge to save her daughter Naomi from her own fate of impregnation by one of the cult leaders. 1999
Words: 15243 - Reading Time: 43-60 min.
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The Bee's Kiss [MultiFormat]
by Charles Sheffield
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Arrin Gilden is discovered using his voyeur skills to spy on The Mentor, absolute ruler of Earth. As punishment he is given a choice of endless torture ... or risk his life on a mission to travel to one of Earth's rebel worlds to spy inside a mysterious alien ship. 1994
Words: 13708 - Reading Time: 39-54 min.
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