Georgia on My Mind and Other Places

by Charles Sheffield

Overview

**INCLUDES THE NEBULA & HUGO WINNING NOVELETTE**

"Sheffield, a physicist, proves to be one of the most imaginative, exciting talents to appear on the SF scene in recent years."-Publishers Weekly **

A collection of some of the finest short stories penned by a master of hard science fiction, this anthology includes Charles Sheffield's highly acclaimed novelette, Georgia On My Mind. **

Georgia On My Mind won both the Hugo and Nebula when originally published in 1993. The accompanying stories were written by the author between 1987 and 1994.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781612420301
Publisher:	Arc Manor
Publication date:	05/19/2011
Pages:	326
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.73(d)

Editorial Reviews

Physicist Sheffield's (Godspeed) sixth collection of short stories, written in the late 1980s and early '90s, affirms his place as a central exponent of hard SF. ``Georgia on My Mind,'' which won a Nebula Award, features a narrator who displays less personality than the letters and diaries of the mysterious ``L.D.,'' the putative author of a 150-year-old manual for a mechanical computer. Sheffield proceeds on the understanding that hard SF is well suited to the form of the mystery, in which a narrator takes second seat behind the plot and its specific expression (as, for example, Doyle's Dr. Watson in the Sherlock Holmes mysteries). His spare prose serves as background lighting, revealing no more than needs to be shown. Tales such as ``The Feynman Saltation'' and the exemplary ``Humanity Test'' are effective for discoveries that do not depend on their main characters' intuition. Occasionally, as in ``Trapalanda,'' the payoff is inadequate, but generally these 15 stories satisfy, presenting the readers with valuable ideas from a master craftsman. (Feb.)

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

This collection of 15 stories by one of the genre's most versatile talents features the Nebula Award-winning "Georgia on My Mind" along with the novella "Destroyer of Worlds."

Library Journal